Spectral Analysis of the Transfer Operator for Sinai billiards
    Speaker: 
  
  
  
      Hongkun Zhang, University of Massachusetts Amherst  
Date and Time: 
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 2:10pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract: 
This is a join work with Mark Demers. We study the billiard map associated with both the finite and infinite horizon Lorentz gases having smooth scatterers with strictly positive curvature. A generalized function spaces is introduced on which the transfer operator is quasi-compact. And we then prove the existence of a spectral gap and related statistical properties including exponential decay of correlations, the central limit theorem and Invariance Principle.

