On the finite blocking property

DOI10.5802/aif.2124zbMath1076.37029arXivmath/0406510MaRDI QIDQ2485445

Thierry Monteil

Publication date: 4 August 2005

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406510

zbMATH Keywords

illumination; quadratic differentials; polygonal billiards; translation surfaces; blocking property; regular polygons; Veech surfaces; torus branched covering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

30F30: Differentials on Riemann surfaces

51M99: Real and complex geometry

37E35: Flows on surfaces

37A10: Dynamical systems involving one-parameter continuous families of measure-preserving transformations

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