The billiard-flow deviation conjecture for rational-angle Euclidean polygons

A rational-angle Euclidean polygon is a Euclidean polygon whose angles are rational multiples of pipi. The deviation of ergodic averages refers to the asymptotic deviation of time averages for the billiard flow from their ergodic averages. To each such polygon is associated a quadratic differential, with an orbit under SL(2,R)SL(2,\mathbb{R}).

Billiard-flow deviation conjecture. For all rational-angle Euclidean polygons, the deviation of ergodic averages for the billiard flow is the same for almost all directions, and depends only on the SL(2,R)SL(2,\mathbb{R}) orbit of the associated quadratic differential.

The conjecture proposes that the fine deviation behavior of billiard trajectories is determined by the SL(2,R)SL(2,\mathbb{R}) orbit of the associated quadratic differential, extending the connection between Teichmüller-geodesic recurrence and deviations of ergodic averages. The excerpt does not state whether this conjecture has been resolved.

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Jayadev S. Athreya, “Quantitative recurrence and large deviations for Teichmuller geodesic flow”, arXiv:math/0506158 (2006).

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