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Undergraduate Paper Session

Icon: calendar Undergraduate Paper Session #1.4

Subevent of Undergraduate Paper Session #1

Computing and Math 315

2026 Mar 27 from 03:00PM to 03:01PM (Central Time (US & Canada))

Abstract:

Uniform distribution under irrational rotation is a classical result in dynamical systems. If a point on the unit circle is iteratively rotated by an irrational multiple of 2π, its orbit is equidistributed with respect to arc length measure, a consequence of the equidistribution theorem and the circle’s rotational symmetry. This research stems from a difference equation in the complex plane that creates an ellipse when -2 < m < 2. Applying an irrational rotation to the ellipse, it is found that although the resulting orbit remains dense, approaching every point on the ellipse arbitrarily closely, it fails to be uniformly distributed with respect to arc length.