Billiards on almost integrable polyhedral surfaces

DOI10.1017/S0143385700002650zbMath0569.58028MaRDI QIDQ3685725

Eugene Gutkin

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic flow; minimal flow; ergodic flow; invariant surface; billiard flow; polyhedral surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70F99: Dynamics of a system of particles, including celestial mechanics

37C10: Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows

28D10: One-parameter continuous families of measure-preserving transformations

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Cites Work

• Gauss measures for transformations on the space of interval exchange maps
• Interval exchange transformations and measured foliations
• Concerning the transitive properties of geodesics on a rational polyhedron