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Farida Ghazawneh,
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" Dynamics of piecewise isometries"
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We analyze and give details of the paper of Arek Goetz,
where we begin with a systematic study of Euclidean
piecewise isometric dynamical systems (p.i.d.s.) with a
particular focus on the interplay between geometry, symbolic
dynamics, and the group of isometries associated with
p.i.d.s. We investigate various aspects of the dynamical
information contained in the coding: symbolic growth and the
periodic behavior of codings and cells. This theoretical
investigation is motivated by the many examples of piecewise
isometric dynamical systems found recently in the
literature. Piecewise isometric dynamical systems are direct
generalizations of interval exchange transformations to
non-invertible, higher dimensional maps.