Growth rates for geometric complexities and counting functions in polygonal billiards

DOI10.1017/S0143385708080620MaRDI QIDQ3399052zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eugene Gutkin, M. Rams

Publication date 29 September 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1975

zbMATH Keywords

complex dynamical systemspolygonal billiardcounting functions

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Abstract: We introduce a new method for estimating the growth of various quantities arising in dynamical systems. We apply our method to polygonal billiards on surfaces of constant curvature. For instance, we obtain power bounds of degree two plus epsilon in length for the number of billiard orbits between almost all pairs of points in a planar polygon.

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