Minimal non-ergodic directions on genus-2 translation surfaces

DOI10.1017/S0143385705000465zbMATH Open1087.37008arXivmath/0501286OpenAlexW2080448078MaRDI QIDQ5289892FDOQ5289892

Authors: Yitwah Cheung, Howard Masur 

Publication date: 19 April 2006

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

Abstract: It is well-known that on any Veech surface, the dynamics in any minimal direction is uniquely ergodic. In this paper it is shown that for any genus 2 translation surface which is not a Veech surface there are uncountably many minimal but not uniquely ergodic directions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501286

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zbMATH Keywords

billiard tablesgenus-2 translation surfaceminimal direction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) General groups of measure-preserving transformations (28D15)

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