
arXiv: 1806.04129
A homothety surface can be assembled from polygons by identifying their edges in pairs via homotheties, which are compositions of translation and scaling. We consider linear trajectories on a 1-parameter family of genus-2 homothety surfaces. The closure of a trajectory on each of these surfaces always has Hausdorff dimension 1, and contains either a closed loop or a lamination with Cantor cross-section. Trajectories have cutting sequences that are either eventually periodic or eventually Sturmian. Although no two of these surfaces are affinely equivalent, their linear trajectories can be related directly to those on the square torus, and thence to each other, by means of explicit functions. We also briefly examine two related families of surfaces and show that the above behaviors can be mixed; for instance, the closure of a linear trajectory can contain both a closed loop and a lamination.
40 pages, 9 figures. Updated references and text to reflect additional connections with existing literature. Other minor edits
Rotation numbers and vectors, Lamination, Affine differential geometry, affine interval exchange, Hausdorff dimension, homothety surface, Dynamical Systems (math.DS), Continued fraction, Veech group, Cutting sequence, Angel's staircase, Mathematics - Geometric Topology, Flows on surfaces, lamination, FOS: Mathematics, Natural Science, Mathematics - Dynamical Systems, Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.), Geometric Topology (math.GT), cutting sequence, continued fraction, Geodesic, Surface, Sturmian sequence, Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval, Affine interval exchange, Homothety, geodesic, 37E35 (Primary), 11A55, 37E05, 37B10 (Secondary)
Rotation numbers and vectors, Lamination, Affine differential geometry, affine interval exchange, Hausdorff dimension, homothety surface, Dynamical Systems (math.DS), Continued fraction, Veech group, Cutting sequence, Angel's staircase, Mathematics - Geometric Topology, Flows on surfaces, lamination, FOS: Mathematics, Natural Science, Mathematics - Dynamical Systems, Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.), Geometric Topology (math.GT), cutting sequence, continued fraction, Geodesic, Surface, Sturmian sequence, Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval, Affine interval exchange, Homothety, geodesic, 37E35 (Primary), 11A55, 37E05, 37B10 (Secondary)
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