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Topological entropy of polygon exchange transformations and polygonal billiards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2001

EUGENE GUTKIN  and
NICOLAI HAYDN
EUGENE GUTKIN
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, USC, Los Angeles, 90089-1113, USA (e-mail: egutkin@mtha.usc.edu) (e-mail: nhaydn@mtha.usc.edu)
NICOLAI HAYDN
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, USC, Los Angeles, 90089-1113, USA (e-mail: egutkin@mtha.usc.edu) (e-mail: nhaydn@mtha.usc.edu)
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Abstract

We study the topological entropy of a class of transformations with mildsingularities: the generalized polygon exchanges.This class contains, in particular, polygonal billiards. Our main result is ageometric estimate, from above, on the topologicalentropy of generalized polygon exchanges. One of the applications of ourestimate is that the topological entropy of polygonalbilliards is zero. This implies the subexponential growth of variousgeometric quantities associated with a polygon.Other applications are to the piecewise isometries in two dimensions, and tobilliards in rational polyhedra.

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Research Article
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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , August 1997 , pp. 849 - 867
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© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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