Local Ergodicity for Systems with Growth Properties including Multi-dimensional Dispersing Billiards
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We prove local ergodicity of uniformly hyperbolic discrete time dynamical systems with singularities, which satisfy certain regularity conditions and an assumption on the growth of unstable manifolds. We apply the result to prove ergodicity of a class of multi-dimensional dispersing billiards.
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