Visualizing toral automorphisms (Q1209808)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 168570
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 168570 |
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Visualizing toral automorphisms (English)
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16 May 1993
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The group of continuous automorphisms on the torus is isomorphic to \(\text{GL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\). Picture a torus constructed by joining two tubes of different colors. Figures show the mixing of the colors as the automorphism \({{2\;1}\choose {1\;1}}\) is iterated. A variety of properties of toral automorphisms are described and how to visualize them geometrically. The interested reader is encouraged to look at the pictures, they are worth more than a thousand words.
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