Insecure configurations in lattice translation surfaces, with applications to polygonal billiards

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2006.16.367zbMATH Open1115.37046OpenAlexW2048958514MaRDI QIDQ862106FDOQ862106

Authors: Eugene Gutkin 

Publication date: 5 February 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2006.16.367

Recommendations

• The geometry and arithmetic of translation surfaces with applications to polygonal billiards
• Billiards in rational polygons: periodic trajectories, symmetries and d-stability
• Blocking of billiard orbits and security for polygons and flat surfaces
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3996692
• Non-ergodic \(\mathbb{Z}\)-periodic billiards and infinite translation surfaces
• Complexity of piecewise convex transformations in two dimensions, with applications to polygonal billiards on surfaces of constant curvature
• Billiards on almost integrable polyhedral surfaces
• Billiards in polygons: Survey of recent results.
• Topology of cylic configuration spaces and periodic trajectories of multi-dimensional billiards
• Ergodicity of billiards in polygons

zbMATH Keywords

blocking settranslation surfacesbilliard dynamicsconnecting geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational aspects of group actions in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E40) Flows on surfaces (37E35)

Cited In (7)

• Blocking of billiard orbits and security for polygons and flat surfaces
• Billiard dynamics: An updated survey with the emphasis on open problems
• Generic absence of finite blocking for interior points of Birkhoff billiards
• Birkhoff billiards are insecure
• Billiard dynamics: a survey with the emphasis on open problems
• Blocking light in compact Riemannian manifolds
• Connecting geodesics and security of configurations in compact locally symmetric spaces

This page was built for publication: Insecure configurations in lattice translation surfaces, with applications to polygonal billiards

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q862106)