A non-varying phenomenon with an application to the wind-tree model

Angel Pardo

Published 2017-04-25Version 1

We exhibit a non-varying phenomenon for the counting problem of cylinders, weighted by their area, passing through two marked (regular) Weierstrass points of a translation surface in a hyperelliptic connected component $\mathcal{H}^{hyp}(2g-2)$ or $\mathcal{H}^{hyp}(g-1,g-1)$, $g > 1$. As an application, we obtain the non-varying phenomenon for the counting problem of (weighted) periodic trajectories on the classical wind-tree model, a billiard in the plane endowed with $\mathbb{Z}^2$-periodically located identical rectangular obstacles.