Tiling billiards and Dynnikov's helicoid

DOI10.1090/MOSC/317zbMATH Open1498.37047arXiv2102.10201OpenAlexW3130818017MaRDI QIDQ5082255FDOQ5082255

Authors: O. Romaskevich 

Publication date: 16 June 2022

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

Abstract: Here are two problems. First, understand the dynamics of a tiling billiard in a cyclic quadrilateral periodic tiling. Second, describe the topology of connected components of plane sections of a centrally symmetric subsurface $Ssubsetmathbb{T}^3$ of genus $3$. In this note we show that these two problems are related via a helicoidal construction proposed recently by Ivan Dynnikov. The second problem is a particular case of a classical question formulated by Sergei Novikov. The exploration of the relationship between a large class of tiling billiards (periodic locally foldable tiling billiards) and Novikov's problem in higher genus seems promising, as we show in the end of this note.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10201

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zbMATH Keywords

translation surfacesbilliardstiling billiardsNovikov's problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Tiling dynamics (37B52) Dynamical systems with singularities (billiards, etc.) (37C83)

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• NegSnell

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