Description of sequences defined by billiards in the cube

DOI10.3792/PJAA.68.207MaRDI QIDQ1803575zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Iekata Shiokawa, Jun-ichi Tamura

Publication date 29 June 1993

Published in Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pja/1195511709

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmbilliardcontinued fractionslattice-free pointtopological dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Density, gaps, topology (11B05) Topological dynamics (37B99)

Review text

A billiard game in the 3-dimensional cube is considered. The orbit of a lattice-free point can be encoded as a sequence with three symbols. In a preceding paper by \textit{K. Nishioka}, \textit{I. Shiokawa} and \textit{J. Tamura} [J. Number Theory 42, 61--87 (1992; Zbl 0770.11039)] an algorithm for the description of an admissible sequence was given. In the present paper another description is given which uses continued fractions and a related series expansion.

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