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Topological dichotomy and strict ergodicity for translation surfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2008

YITWAH CHEUNG ,
PASCAL HUBERT  and
HOWARD MASUR
YITWAH CHEUNG
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA (email: [email protected])
PASCAL HUBERT
Affiliation:
LATP, Case cour A, Faculté des Sciences de Saint Jérôme, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397, Marseille Cedex 20, France (email: [email protected])
HOWARD MASUR
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA (email: [email protected])
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Abstract

In this paper the authors find examples of translation surfaces that have infinitely generated Veech groups, satisfy the topological dichotomy property that for every direction the flow in that direction is either completely periodic or minimal, and yet have minimal but non-uniquely ergodic directions.

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Research Article
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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , December 2008 , pp. 1729 - 1748
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Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press

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