A series of coverings of the regular \(n\)-gon (Q715268): Difference between revisions

A translation surface is a surface obtained from finitely many polygons in the Euclidean plane by identifying their edges by translations; thus it enjoys a singular Euclidean structure. Then the affine automorphism group of a translation surface induces a subgroup of \(\operatorname{SL}(2, \mathbb{R})\), called the Veech group. Indeed \textit{W. A. Veech} [Invent. Math. 97, No. 3, 553--583 (1989; Zbl 0676.32006)] considered a particular translation surface \(X_n\) obtained from two copies of a regular \(n\)-gon, called a double-\(n\)-gon, and gave a generating set of its Veech group using elliptic and parabolic elements of \(\operatorname{SL}(2, \mathbb{R})\). In the paper under review, the author considers, for \(n \geq 5\) and \(n \neq 7\), a particular family of covers of \(X_n\), for all degrees \(d > 1\) including \(d = \infty\) (similar to \textit{G. Schmithüsen} [Contemporary Mathematics 397, 193--206 (2006; Zbl 1099.14015)]), then she shows that these covering translation surfaces share a common Veech group \(\Gamma_n\). In particular the author gives an explicit generating set of \(\Gamma_n\) and shows that it is a lattice.