Triangle tiling billiards and the exceptional family of their escaping trajectories: circumcenters and Rauzy gasket

DOI10.1080/10586458.2019.1583615zbMATH Open1500.37023arXiv1804.00181OpenAlexW2907275906MaRDI QIDQ5070640FDOQ5070640

Authors: Pascal Hubert, O. Romaskevich 

Publication date: 14 April 2022

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Consider a periodic tiling of a plane by equal triangles obtained from the equilateral tiling by a linear transformation. We study a following tiling billiard: a ball follows straight segments and bounces of the boundaries of the tiles into neighbouring tiles in such a way that the coefficient of refraction is equal to -1. We show that almost all the trajectories of such a billiard are either closed or escape linearly, and for closed trajectories we prove that their periods belong to the set 4N+2. We also give a precise description of the exceptional family of trajectories (of zero measure) : these trajectories escape non-linearly to infinity and approach fractal-like sets. We show that this exceptional family is parametrized by the famous Rauzy gasket. This proves several conjectures stated previously on triangle tiling billiards. In this work, we also give a more precise understanding of fully flipped minimal exchange transformations on 3 and 4 intervals by proving that they belong to a special hypersurface. Our proofs are based on the study of Rauzy graphs for interval exchange transformations with flips.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00181

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zbMATH Keywords

Rauzy graphsRauzy gasketRauzy inductiontiling billiardsinterval exchange transformations with flips

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20) Tiling dynamics (37B52) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

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• Periodicity and ergodicity in the trihexagonal tiling
• Tiling billards on triangle tilings, and interval exchange transformations
• Uniform perfectness for interval exchange transformations with or without flips
• Negative refraction and tiling billiards

Uses Software

• NegSnell

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