Ergodic theory and Diophantine approximation for translation surfaces and linear forms
Athreya, J; Parrish, A; Tseng, J
Date: 1 August 2016
Journal
Nonlinearity
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IOP Publishing
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Abstract
We derive results on the distribution of directions of saddle connections on translation surfaces using only the Birkhoff ergodic theorem applied to the geodesic flow on the moduli space of translation surfaces. Our techniques, together with an approximation argument, also give an alternative proof of a weak version of a classical ...
We derive results on the distribution of directions of saddle connections on translation surfaces using only the Birkhoff ergodic theorem applied to the geodesic flow on the moduli space of translation surfaces. Our techniques, together with an approximation argument, also give an alternative proof of a weak version of a classical theorem in multi-dimensional Diophantine approximation due to Schmidt (1960 Can. J. Math. 12 619–31, 1964 Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 110 493–518). The approximation argument allows us to deduce the Birkhoff genericity of almost all lattices in a certain submanifold of the space of unimodular lattices from the Birkhoff genericity of almost all lattices in the whole space and similarly for the space of affine unimodular lattices.
Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
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