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arxiv: chao-dyn/9406001 · v2 · submitted 1994-06-09 · chao-dyn · nlin.CD

Complexity of Trajectories in Rectangular Billiards

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Revised version: some minor errors and typos fixed; exposition watered. Abstract: To a trajectory of a billiard in parallelogram we assign its symbolic trajectory - the sequence of numbers of coordinate plane, to which the faces met by the trajectory are parallel. The complexity of the trajectory is the number of different words of length $n$ occurring in it. We prove that for generic trajectories the complexity is well defined and calculate it, confirming the conjecture of Arnoux, Mauduit, Shiokawa and Tamura [AMST].

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