Description of sequences defined by billiards in the cube (Q1803575)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 221216
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Description of sequences defined by billiards in the cube
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 221216

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    Description of sequences defined by billiards in the cube (English)
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    29 June 1993
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    A billiard game in the 3-dimensional cube is considered. The orbit of a lattice-free point can be encoded as a sequence with three symbols. In a preceding paper by \textit{K. Nishioka}, \textit{I. Shiokawa} and \textit{J. Tamura} [J. Number Theory 42, 61--87 (1992; Zbl 0770.11039)] an algorithm for the description of an admissible sequence was given. In the present paper another description is given which uses continued fractions and a related series expansion.
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    topological dynamics
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    billiard
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    lattice-free point
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    algorithm
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    continued fractions
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