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January  2013, 7(1): 31-44. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2013.7.31

Growth of periodic orbits and generalized diagonals for typical triangular billiards

Dmitri Scheglov 1,

1. 

Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019-3103, United States

Received  May 2012 Revised  October 2012 Published  May 2013

We prove that for any $\epsilon>0$ the growth rate $P_n$ of generalized diagonals or periodic orbits of a typical (in the Lebesgue measure sense) triangular billiard satisfies: $P_n < Ce^{n^{\sqrt{3}-1+\epsilon}}$. This provides an explicit subexponential estimate on the triangular billiard complexity and answers a long-standing open question for typical triangles. This also makes progress towards a solution of Problem 3 in Katok's list of "Five most resistant problems in dynamics". The proof uses essentially new geometric ideas and does not rely on the rational approximations.
Keywords: Billiards, complexity..
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37C10; Secondary: 37C3.
Citation: Dmitri Scheglov. Growth of periodic orbits and generalized diagonals for typical triangular billiards. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2013, 7 (1) : 31-44. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2013.7.31
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A. Katok and A. Zemlyakov, Topological transitivity of billiards in polygons,, Mat. Zametki, 18 (1975), 291.   Google Scholar

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H. Masur, The growth rate of trajectories of a quadratic differential,, Ergod. Th. Dyn. Sys., 10 (1990), 151.  doi: 10.1017/S0143385700005459.  Google Scholar

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Y. Vorobets, Ergodicity of billiards in polygons,, Mat. Sb., 188 (1997), 65.  doi: 10.1070/SM1997v188n03ABEH000211.  Google Scholar

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References:
[1]

J. Cassaigne, P. Hubert and S. Troubetzkoy, Complexity and growth for polygonal billiards,, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble), 52 (2002), 835.   Google Scholar

[2]

E. Gutkin and M. Rams, Growth rates for geometric complexities and counting functions in polygonal billiards,, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems, 29 (2009), 1163.  doi: 10.1017/S0143385708080620.  Google Scholar

[3]

E. Gutkin and S. Tabachnikov, Complexity of piecewise convex transformations in two dimensions, with applications to polygonal billiards on surfaces of constant curvature,, (English summary) Mosc. Math. J., 6 (2006), 673.   Google Scholar

[4]

E. Gutkin and S. Troubetzkoy, Directional flows and strong recurrence for polygonal billiards,, Proceedings of the International Congress of Dynamical Systems, ().   Google Scholar

[5]

B. Hasselblatt, ed., "Dynamics, Ergodic Theory, and Geometry,", Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, 54 (2007).  doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511755187.  Google Scholar

[6]

V. Kaloshin and I. Rodnianski, Diophantine properties of elements of SO(3),, Geom. Funct. Anal., 11 (2001), 953.  doi: 10.1007/s00039-001-8222-8.  Google Scholar

[7]

A. Katok, Five most resistant problems in dynamics., Available from: \url{http://www.math.psu.edu/katok_a/pub/5problems-expanded.pdf}., ().   Google Scholar

[8]

A. Katok, The growth rate for the number of singular and periodic orbits for a polygonal billiard,, Comm. Math. Phys., 111 (1987), 151.  doi: 10.1007/BF01239021.  Google Scholar

[9]

A. Katok and A. Zemlyakov, Topological transitivity of billiards in polygons,, Mat. Zametki, 18 (1975), 291.   Google Scholar

[10]

H. Masur, The growth rate of trajectories of a quadratic differential,, Ergod. Th. Dyn. Sys., 10 (1990), 151.  doi: 10.1017/S0143385700005459.  Google Scholar

[11]

H. Masur, Lower bounds for the number of saddle connections and closed trajectories of a quadratic differential,, in, 10 (1986).  doi: 10.1007/978-1-4613-9602-4_20.  Google Scholar

[12]

D. Scheglov, Lower bounds on directional complexity for irrational triangle billiards,, preprint., ().   Google Scholar

[13]

S. Troubetzkoy, Complexity lower bounds for polygonal billiards,, Chaos, 8 (1998), 242.  doi: 10.1063/1.166301.  Google Scholar

[14]

Y. Vorobets, Ergodicity of billiards in polygons,, Mat. Sb., 188 (1997), 65.  doi: 10.1070/SM1997v188n03ABEH000211.  Google Scholar

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