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RETRACTED - THE KRONECKER–WEYL EQUIDISTRIBUTION THEOREM AND GEODESICS IN 3-MANIFOLDS

Part of: Low-dimensional dynamical systems Probabilistic theory: distribution modulo $1$; metric theory of algorithms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2022

J. BECK  and
W. W. L. CHEN Open the ORCID record for W. W. L. CHEN [Opens in a new window]
J. BECK
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA e-mail: jbeck@math.rutgers.edu
W. W. L. CHEN*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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e-mail: william.chen@mq.edu.au
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Abstract

Given any rectangular polyhedron $3$-manifold $\mathcal {P}$ tiled with unit cubes, we find infinitely many explicit directions related to cubic algebraic numbers such that all half-infinite geodesics in these directions are uniformly distributed in $\mathcal {P}$.

Keywords

geodesicsequidistributiondensity

MSC classification

Primary: 11K38: Irregularities of distribution, discrepancy
Secondary: 37E35: Flows on surfaces

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Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , First View , pp. 1 - 44
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

Communicated by Dzmitry Badziahin

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