scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1004862
Spectral theory; trace formulas (e.g., that of Selberg) (11F72) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)
The paper is a survey on the theory of billiards in the polygons. The author mostly discusses so-called rational polygons (whose interior angles are of the type \({\pi m_i\over n_i}\)) and more specifically Veech polygons for which developping surfaces in \(\mathbf C\) have some additional properties (namely the image of the group of affine diffeomorphisms of the corresponding developping surface in the group \(SL(2, {\mathbf R})\) under the map \(\phi \mapsto D\phi\) has to be finite, where \(D\phi\) is the differential of such a diffeomorphism \(\phi\)). The author describes different results for Veech polygons like: quadratical estimations for the number \(f_P(x)\) of periodical orbits of the length smaller than \(x\), their ergodical properties etc. One of the results citing in the paper claims that a rational polygon \(P\) is almost integrable iff \(P\) is a Veech polygon and its Veech group is arithmetic [\textit{E. Gutkin} and \textit{C. Judge}, The geometry and arithmetic of translation surfaces, with applications to polygonal billiards, Math. Res. Lett. 3, No. 3, 391-403 (1996; Zbl 0865.30060)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0857.00014].
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