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Non-periodic not everywhere dense trajectories in triangular billiards

Dynamical Systems 2024-06-26 v1

Abstract

Building on tools that have been successfully used in the study of rational billiards, such as induced maps and interval exchange transformations, we provide a construction of a one-parameter family of isosceles triangles exhibiting non-periodic trajectories that are not everywhere dense. This provides, by elementary means, a definitive negative answer to a long-standing open question on the density of non-periodic trajectories in triangular billiards.

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@article{arxiv.2406.17734,
  title  = {Non-periodic not everywhere dense trajectories in triangular billiards},
  author = {Julia Slipantschuk and Oscar F. Bandtlow and Wolfram Just},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.17734},
  year   = {2024}
}

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15 pages, 2 figures

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