Density conjecture for generic orbits of the bicycle map

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Fix a degree dd and consider the torus Hd\mathcal H_d of hedgehogs whose support functions are trigonometric polynomials of degree dd, with the amplitudes of each harmonic fixed. The map Mα\mathcal M_\alpha acts on the kkth circle factor by rotation through 2(βkα)2(\beta_k-\alpha), where tanβk=ktanα\tan\beta_k=k\tan\alpha. Density conjecture. For a generic α\alpha, the orbit of a point is dense in the torus Hd\mathcal H_d. This expectation is based on the anticipated rational independence of the angles βk\beta_k; the supplied text gives no proof or resolution.

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Serge Tabachnikov, “Iterating skew evolutes and skew involutes: a linear analog of the bicycle kinematics”, arXiv:2302.04047 (2023).

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