Straightening Billiard Trajectories in Flat Disks and Katok-Zemlyakov Construction

Publication date 9 April 2019

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) Metric geometry (51F99) Flows on surfaces (37E35)

Abstract: We provide a method to straighten each billiard trajectory in a flat disk. As an application, we show that for each point on the disk and for almost all directions, the closure of the corresponding billiard trajectory contains a vertex. We generalize Katok-Zemlyakov construction to the flat disks with rational angle data: for each rational flat disk we obtain a translation surface and a projection to the doubling of the disk. We calculate the Euler characteristics of this translation surface.

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