Ergodicity of billiard flows and quadratic differentials (Q1098460)
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Ergodicity of billiard flows and quadratic differentials (English)
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1986
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The paper is concerned with polygonal billiards in the plane. Its main result is that the set of polygons with an ergodic billiard flow contains a dense \(G_{\delta}\). It is obtained as a corollary of a result the authors prove about Riemannian surfaces and quadratic differentials.
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polygonal billiards
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ergodic billiard flow
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