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Rauzy-Veech Induction for Infinite-Type IETs

Dynamical Systems 2026-06-29 v1

Abstract

We consider infinite-type IETs arising from elementary examples of finite-area translation surfaces of infinite genus such as the Baker's surface. We call such IETs tail-reversing and we show that for any tail-reversing permutation the subset of the simplex of lengths Δ\Delta for which the corresponding infinite-type IET is uniquely ergodic contains a dense GδG_{\delta} set with respect to the 1\ell^1-topology. To this end, we generalize Rauzy-Veech induction to a large class of infinite-type IETs, where we prove a minimality criterion as a generalization of Keane's criterion in the finite setting. We then restrict ourselves to tail-reversing IETs and obtain our genericity result through a combinatorial analysis of their infinite-type Rauzy diagrams. Moreover, we derive an explicit condition for a tail-reversing IET to be uniquely ergodic by studying the diameter of its induction matrices.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2606.30629,
  title  = {Rauzy-Veech Induction for Infinite-Type IETs},
  author = {Charles Fougeron and Sophie Schmidhuber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.30629},
  year   = {2026}
}
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