Unipotent flows on the space of branched covers of Veech surfaces

DOI10.1017/S0143385705000234zbMATH Open1085.37021arXivmath/0408090OpenAlexW1964411215MaRDI QIDQ3377387FDOQ3377387

Authors: Alex Eskin, Jens Marklof, David Witte Morris 

Publication date: 22 March 2006

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There is a natural action of SL(2,R) on the moduli space of translation surfaces, and this yields an action of the unipotent subgroup $$. We classify the U-invariant ergodic measures on certain special submanifolds of the moduli space. (Each submanifold is the SL(2,R)-orbit of the set of branched covers of a fixed Veech surface.) For the U-action on these submanifolds, this is an analogue of Ratner's Theorem on unipotent flows. The result yields an asymptotic estimate of the number of periodic trajectories for billiards in a certain family of non-Veech rational triangles, namely, the isosceles triangles in which exactly one angle is $2pi/n$, with $nge5$ and $n$ odd.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408090

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zbMATH Keywords

invariant measuresbilliardsperiodic trajectoriesunipotent flowsVeech surfaceRatner's theoremnon-Veech rational triangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85)

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