Strongly obtuse rational lattice triangles

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8415zbMATH Open1485.37033arXiv2009.00174OpenAlexW3158936103MaRDI QIDQ3382265FDOQ3382265

Authors: Anne Larsen, Chaya Norton, Bradley Zykoski 

Publication date: 21 September 2021

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We classify rational triangles which unfold to Veech surfaces when the largest angle is at least $frac3pi4$. When the largest angle is greater than $frac2pi3$, we show that the unfolding is not Veech except possibly if it belongs to one of six infinite families. Our methods include a criterion of Mirzakhani and Wright that built on work of M"oller and McMullen, and in most cases show that the orbit closure of the unfolding cannot have rank 1.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00174

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zbMATH Keywords

unfoldingbilliardsrational triangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25) Relations between ergodic theory and number theory (37A44) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

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