Positive topological entropy for multi-bump magnetic fields
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2012-08-07
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We study the dynamics of a charged particle in a planar magnetic field which consists of n >= 1 disjoint localized peaks. We show that, under mild geometric conditions, this system is semi-conjugated to the full shift on n symbols and, hence, carries positive topological entropy.