The almost-everywhere ergodicity and weak-mixing conjecture for polygonal billiards

Let PP be a simply connected polygonal table, and let the billiard flow on its 33-dimensional phase space be the Hamiltonian motion of a point moving freely in PP and reflecting specularly at the boundary.

Polygonal-billiard conjecture. For almost all simply connected polygonal tables, the billiard flow is ergodic and weakly mixing.

The ergodic theory of general polygonal billiards is poorly understood. Although a GδG_\delta-dense set of polygons with ergodic billiard flow is known, the asserted almost-everywhere combination of ergodicity and weak mixing is not established in the source.

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Giovanni Forni, “Effective Unique Ergodicity and Weak Mixing of Translation Flows”, arXiv:2311.02714 (2023).

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