Bounds on saddle connections for flat spheres

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Main Authors: Fu, Kai, Tahar, Guillaume
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Published: 2023
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author Fu, Kai
Tahar, Guillaume
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Tahar, Guillaume
contents We consider a flat metric with conical singularities on the sphere. Under the assumption that no partial sum of angle defects is equal to $2π$, we draw on the geometry of immersed disks to obtain an explicit upper bound on the number of saddle connections with at most $k$ self-intersections. Additionally, we establish an upper bound on their lengths for a surface with a normalized area. Finally, we apply these bounds to the counting of singular trajectories in irrational polygonal billiards.
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spellingShingle Bounds on saddle connections for flat spheres
Fu, Kai
Tahar, Guillaume
Geometric Topology
Differential Geometry
We consider a flat metric with conical singularities on the sphere. Under the assumption that no partial sum of angle defects is equal to $2π$, we draw on the geometry of immersed disks to obtain an explicit upper bound on the number of saddle connections with at most $k$ self-intersections. Additionally, we establish an upper bound on their lengths for a surface with a normalized area. Finally, we apply these bounds to the counting of singular trajectories in irrational polygonal billiards.
title Bounds on saddle connections for flat spheres
topic Geometric Topology
Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08940