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Complexity and growth for polygonal billiards

J. Cassaigne, P. Hubert, S. Troubetzkoy

math.DSarXiv:math/0109208

Abstract

We establish a relationship between the word complexity and the number of generalized diagonals for a polygonal billiard. We conclude that in the rational case the complexity function has cubic upper and lower bounds. In the tiling case the complexity has cubic asymptotic growth.

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