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# Recurrence in generic staircases

• The straight-line flow on almost every staircase and on almost every square tiled staircase is recurrent. For almost every square tiled staircase the set of periodic orbits is dense in the phase space.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37D40, 37D50.

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