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Inhomogeneous Diophantine Approximation and Angular Recurrence for Polygonal Billiards

Dynamical Systems 2007-05-23 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

For a given rotation number we compute the Hausdorff dimension of the set of well approximable numbers. We use this result and an inhomogeneous version of Jarnik's theorem to show strong recurrence properties of the billiard flow in certain polygons

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@article{arxiv.math/0105150,
  title  = {Inhomogeneous Diophantine Approximation and Angular Recurrence for Polygonal Billiards},
  author = {Joerg Schmeling and Serge Troubetzkoy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0105150},
  year   = {2007}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure