New Kronecker-Weyl type equidistribution results and Diophantine approximation (Q6111143): Difference between revisions

\textit{W. A. Veech} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 140, 1--33 (1969; Zbl 0201.05601)] considered the some parity version of the classical equidistribution theorem. He consider the set \(X:[0;1)\times \{0,1\}\) and the map \(T:X\to X\) defined as follows \(T(x,y)=(\{x+\alpha\},y)\) if \(\{x+\alpha\}>b\), and \(T(x,y)=(\{x+\alpha\},1-y)\) otherwise, and ask about the uniformity of the distribution of the orbit of \(T\). This problem also can be reformulated as studying the geodesic flow on some flat surface named as 2-square-b surface. Veech proved that if \(\alpha\) is badly approximable and \(b\neq \{ma\}\), \(m\in\mathbb{Z}\), any half-infinite \(T\)-orbit is evenly distributed between the sets \([0;1)\times \{0\}\) and \([0;1)\times \{1\}\). In current paper it is proved that in this case any \(T\)-orbit is uniformly distributed. Also this result is generalized to geodesic flows on some more general surfaces named as a flat finite polysquare-\(b\)-rational translation surface. Moreover, for some classes of surfaces the case \(b=\{m\alpha\}\) is also solved. For the case when \(\alpha\) is not badly approximable, Veech showed that for uncountable sets of \(b\) the visiting densities of \(T\)-orbit to \([0;1)\times \{0\}\) and \([0;1)\times \{1\}\) do not exist. In this paper some quantitative results that shows deep and very striking violations of uniformity are obtained.