Veech’s dichotomy and the lattice property

DOI10.1017/S0143385708000114zbMath1163.37010MaRDI QIDQ3548624

Barak Weiss, John Smillie

Publication date: 16 December 2008

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

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic flow; translation surface; unique ergodicity; lattice property; Veech's dichotomy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57M50: General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds

37D40: Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.)

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