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A translation surface is given by polygons in the plane, with sides identified by translations to create a closed Riemann surface with a flat structure away from finitely many singular points. Understanding geodesic flow on a surface…

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Given a random map (T_1, T_2, T_3, T_4, p_1, p_2, p_3, p_4), we define a random billiard map on a surface of constant curvature (Euclidean plane, hyperbolic plane, or the sphere). The Liouville measure is invariant for this billiard map.…

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This paper focuses on intersection of closed curves on translation surfaces. Namely, we investigate the question of determining the intersection of two closed curves of a given length on such surfaces. This question has been investigated in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Julien Boulanger , Irene Pasquinelli

The semiclassical theory for billiards with mixed boundary conditions is developed and explicit expressions for the smooth and the oscillatory parts of the spectral density are derived. The parametric dependence of the spectrum on the…

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Transformations in the field of computer graphics and geometry are one of the most important concepts for efficient manipulation and control of objects in 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional space. Transformations take many forms each with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Benjamin Kenwright

A submanifold of the standard symplectic space determines a partially defined, multi-valued symplectic map, the outer symplectic billiard correspondence. Two points are in this correspondence if the midpoint of the segment connecting them…

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The Clifford spectrum is an elegant way to define the joint spectrum of several Hermitian operators. While it has been know that for examples as small as three $2$-by-$2$ matrices the Clifford spectrum can be a two-dimensional manifold, few…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Patrick H. DeBonis , Terry A. Loring , Roman Sverdlov

Polygonal billiards exhibit a rich and complex dynamical behavior. In recent years polygonal billiards have attracted great attention due to their application in the understanding of anomalous transport, but also at the fundamental level,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-14 Jordan Orchard , Federico Frascoli , Lamberto Rondoni , Carlos Mejía-Monasterio

We consider outer billiard outside regular convex polygons. We deal with the case of regular polygons with $\{3,4,5,6,10\}$ sides, and we describe the symbolic dynamics of the map and compute the complexity of the language.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Nicolas Bedaride , Julien Cassaigne

A surface that is the pointwise sum of circles in Euclidean space is either coplanar or contains no more than 2 circles through a general point. A surface that is the pointwise product of circles in the unit-quaternions contains either 2,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Niels Lubbes

Revised version: some minor errors and typos fixed; exposition watered. Abstract: To a trajectory of a billiard in parallelogram we assign its symbolic trajectory - the sequence of numbers of coordinate plane, to which the faces met by the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Yuliy Baryshnikov

In combinatorial topology we aim to triangulate manifolds such that their topological properties are reflected in the combinatorial structure of their description. Here, we give a combinatorial criterion on when exactly triangulations of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Benjamin Burton , Jonathan Spreer

In the homogeneous space Sol$_3$, a translation surface is parameterized by $x(s,t)=\alpha(s)\ast\beta(t)$, where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are curves contained in coordinate planes and $\ast$ denotes the group operation of Sol$_3$. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-07 Rafael López , Marian Ioan Munteanu

We construct an explicit family of finite-area, infinite-genus translation surfaces whose vertical translation flow is strongly mixing. This provides a positive answer to a question posed by Lindsey and Trevi\~no~\cite{LT}

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Erick Gordillo Herrerías

We characterize the polytopes in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (not necessarily convex or connected ones) which multi-tile the space by translations along a given lattice. We also give a necessary and sufficient condition for two polytopes in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Nir Lev , Bochen Liu

A triangulation of a polygon has an associated Stanley-Reisner ideal. We obtain a full algebraic and combinatorial understanding of these ideals, and describe their separated models. More generally we do this for stacked simplicial…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Gunnar Fløystad , Milo Orlich

Let $k \geq 2$ be a constant. Given any $k$ convex polygons in the plane with a total of $n$ vertices, we present an $O(n\log^{2k-3}n)$ time algorithm that finds a translation of each of the polygons such that the area of intersection of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hyuk Jun Kweon , Honglin Zhu

We study multiple tilings of 3-dimensional Euclidean space by a convex body. In a multiple tiling, a convex body $P$ is translated with a discrete multiset $\Lambda$ in such a way that each point of the space gets covered exactly $k$ times,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-09 Nick Gravin , Mihail Kolountzakis , Sinai Robins , Dmitry Shiryaev

The intersection matrix of a simplicial complex has entries equal to the rank of the intersection of its facets. In [1] the authors prove the intersection matrix is enough to determine a triangulation of a surface up to isomorphism. In this…

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