Diophantine approximations for translation surfaces and planar resonant sets (Q1645341)

An important problem in the study of translation surfaces is understanding how well a given direction is approximated by directions of saddle connections. This theory generalizes the classical theory of Diophantine approximation, which can be interpreted as the flat torus case of this problem. In this excellent paper, the structure of the set of saddle connections is axiomatized to that of a planar resonant set and this structure is used to compute upper and lower bounds of the Hausdorff dimension of Teichmüller geodesics remaining in certain compact sets. A computation of the Hausdorff dimension of Teichmüller geodesics which have prescribed excursions to infinity. A beautiful application is the understanding of the recurrence rates for billiard flows in rational polygons.