You can hear the shape of a billiard table: symbolic dynamics and rigidity for flat surfaces

DOI10.4171/CMH/516zbMath1487.37011arXiv1804.05690OpenAlexW3177627303MaRDI QIDQ2055241

Viveka Erlandsson, Christopher J. Leininger, Moon Duchin, Chandrika Sadanand

Publication date: 6 December 2021

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05690

zbMATH Keywords

billiardssymbolic dynamicssurfacesEuclideanLiouville current

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

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