Planar structures and billiards in rational polygons: the Veech alternative

DOI10.1070/RM1996v051n05ABEH002993zbMath0897.58029MaRDI QIDQ4375214

Ya. B. Vorobets

Publication date: 1 February 1998

Published in: Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic flowquadratic differentialmeasured foliationplanar structurerational polygonsbillard

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Ergodic theory (37A99) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

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