Veech groups, irrational billiards and stable Abelian differentials

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2012.32.1055MaRDI QIDQ765088zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ferrán Valdez

Publication date 19 March 2012

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

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)

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.

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