Veech groups, irrational billiards and stable Abelian differentials

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2012.32.1055zbMATH Open1260.37024arXiv0905.1591OpenAlexW2963460014MaRDI QIDQ765088FDOQ765088

Authors: Ferrán Valdez 

Publication date: 19 March 2012

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe Veech groups of flat surfaces arising from irrational angled polygonal billiards or irreducible stable abelian differentials. For irrational polygonal billiards, we prove that these groups are non-discrete subgroups of SO(2,R) and we calculate their rank.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1591

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zbMATH Keywords

Veech groupirrational polygonal billiards

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35)

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