Geodesic Flow: Stadium Billiard

Bunimovich stadium — a paradigm of ergodic and mixing dynamics

The Bunimovich stadium (1979) — a rectangle with semicircular caps — is ergodic and mixing: almost all orbits densely fill the phase space. Its Lyapunov exponent is positive, making it one of the first proven examples of hard chaos. The Birkhoff section maps boundary position s to reflection angle theta.