Positive topological entropy conjecture for lemon billiards

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Let Q(b)\mathcal{Q}(b) be the intersection of two unit disks with center distance b(0,2)b\in(0,2), and let

Fb:MbMbF_b:M_b\to M_b

be the billiard map on the lemon table Q(b)\mathcal{Q}(b). Lemon billiard entropy conjecture. For every 0<b<20<b<2,

htop(Fb)>0.h_{top}(F_b)>0.

The conjecture asks whether every lemon billiard has positive topological entropy; the paper proves this for bb in a one-sided neighborhood of 1.51.5, apart from possibly a discrete subset, by establishing crossing homoclinic and heteroclinic intersections.

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Xin Jin and Pengfei Zhang, “Homoclinic and heteroclinic intersections for lemon billiards”, arXiv:2203.06477 (2024).

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