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Dynamics of non-classical interval exchanges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2011

VAIBHAV S. GADRE
VAIBHAV S. GADRE*
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Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA (email: vaibhav@math.harvard.edu)
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Abstract

A natural generalization of interval exchange maps are linear involutions, first introduced by Danthony and Nogueira [Measured foliations on non-orientable surfaces. Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 26(6) (1993), 645–664]. Recurrent train tracks with a single switch provide a subclass of linear involutions. We call such linear involutions non-classical interval exchanges. They are related to measured foliations on orientable flat surfaces. Non-classical interval exchanges can be studied as a dynamical system by considering Rauzy induction in this context. This gives a refinement process on the parameter space similar to Kerckhoff’s simplicial systems. We show that the refinement process gives an expansion that has a key dynamical property called uniform distortion. We use uniform distortion to prove normality of the expansion. Consequently, we prove an analog of Keane’s conjecture: almost every non-classical interval exchange is uniquely ergodic. Uniform distortion has been independently shown in [A. Avila and M. Resende. Exponential mixing for the Teichmüller flow in the space of quadratic differentials, http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1102].

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 32 , Issue 6 , December 2012 , pp. 1930 - 1971
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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