On the Difficulty of Triangulating Three-Dimensional Nonconvex Polyhedra.
A planar polygonal billiard is said to have the finite blocking property if for every pair of points in there exists a finite number of “blocking” points such that every billiard trajectory from to meets one of the ’s. Generalizing our construction of a counter-example to a theorem of Hiemer and Snurnikov, we show that the only regular polygons that have the finite blocking property are the square, the equilateral triangle and the hexagon. Then we extend this result to translation surfaces....
In this paper we introduce the topological surface called {Infinite Loch Ness monster}, discussing how this name has evolved and how it has been historically understood. We give two constructions of this surface, one of them having translation structure and the other hyperbolic structure.