Code and order in polygonal billiards

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.09.007MaRDI QIDQ649823zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jozef Bobok, Serge Troubetzkoy

Publication date 6 December 2011

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4220

zbMATH Keywords

code equivalencepolygonal billiardirrational polygonnon-exceptional directionrational polygon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological and differentiable equivalence, conjugacy, moduli, classification of dynamical systems (37C15) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10)

Abstract: Two polygons $P,Q$ are code equivalent if there are billiard orbits $u,v$ which hit the same sequence of sides and such that the projections of the orbits are dense in the boundaries $partialP,partialQ$. Our main results show when code equivalent polygons have the same angles, resp. are similar, resp. affinely similar.

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