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On the Local-Global Conjecture for Combinatorial Period Lengths of Closed Billiards on the Regular Pentagon
Alex Kontorovich, Xin Zhang
We study the set of combinatorial lengths of asymmetric periodic trajectories on the regular pentagon, proving a density-one version of a conjecture of Davis-Lelievre.
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Lax-Phillips orbit counting in higher rank
Alex Kontorovich, Christopher Lutsko
Given a discrete lattice, , and a base point , let denote the number of points in the orbit whose (Eucl…