Visualizing toral automorphisms

DOI10.1007/BF03025260MaRDI QIDQ1209808zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Matthew A. Grayson, George Zettler, Bruce Kitchens

Publication date 16 May 1993

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03025260

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismstorus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recreational mathematics (00A08) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

Review text

The group of continuous automorphisms on the torus is isomorphic to \(\text{GL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\). Picture a torus constructed by joining two tubes of different colors. Figures show the mixing of the colors as the automorphism \({{2\;1}\choose {1\;1}}\) is iterated. A variety of properties of toral automorphisms are described and how to visualize them geometrically. The interested reader is encouraged to look at the pictures, they are worth more than a thousand words.

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• GL(2, Z) Action on a Two Torus

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