Finiteness in Polygonal Billiards on Hyperbolic Plane
Dynamical Systems
2021-12-10 v3
Abstract
\textsc{J. Hadamard} studied the geometric properties of geodesic flows on surfaces of negative curvature, thus initiating "Symbolic Dynamics". In this article, we follow the same geometric approach to study the geodesic trajectories of billiards in "rational polygons" on the hyperbolic plane. We particularly show that the billiard dynamics resulting thus are just 'Subshifts of Finite Type' or their dense subsets. We further show that 'Subshifts of Finite Type' play a central role in subshift dynamics and while discussing the topological structure of the space of all subshifts, we demonstrate that they approximate any shift dynamics.
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@article{arxiv.2002.08002,
title = {Finiteness in Polygonal Billiards on Hyperbolic Plane},
author = {Anima Nagar and Pradeep Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.08002},
year = {2021}
}
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