Minimality criterion for Veech NN-example flows and interval exchanges

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Let XNX_N be the Veech NN-example surface, with directional flow ϕtθ\phi_t^{\theta}, and let TfT_f and T1−fT_{1-f} be the associated interval exchange transformations. Write the slope parameter as α\alpha and the surface parameter as β\beta. For integers m,nm,n, interpret (N,m,n)≠1(N,m,n)\neq 1 as the condition that N,m,nN,m,n have a common divisor greater than 11. Minimality conjecture. If α\alpha is irrational, then the flow ϕtθ\phi_t^{\theta} is not minimal on XNX_N if and only if α=(n+β)/m\alpha=(n+\beta)/m; TfT_f is not minimal if and only if β=mα+n\beta=m\alpha+n; and T1−fT_{1-f} is not minimal if and only if β=mα+n+1\beta=m\alpha+n+1, for some m,n∈Zm,n\in\mathbb Z with (N,m,n)≠1(N,m,n)\neq1. The conjecture extends the known obstruction criteria for Veech examples; the source states that the “if” directions are known and that some cases are proved later in the paper, while the full equivalences are not established there.

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Sébastien Ferenczi and Pascal Hubert, “Minimality and unique ergodicity of Veech 1969 type interval exchange transformations”, arXiv:2103.09018 (2021).

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