Infinite translation surfaces with infinitely generated Veech groups (Q630032)

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Infinite translation surfaces with infinitely generated Veech groups
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    Infinite translation surfaces with infinitely generated Veech groups (English)
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    10 March 2011
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    The paper contains a beautiful construction of an infinite translation surface by infinite staircase origamis, \({\mathbb Z}\)-covers of finite square-tiled surfaces obtained by a certain two-slit cut and paste construction. Depending on the base origami, the Veech group of the surface is either a level-2 congruence subgroup of the elliptic modular group \(\Gamma\) or (in most cases) a subgroup of first kind but of infinite index in \(\Gamma\). Independently of these examples, this dichotomy is typical: Veech groups of infinite origamis are either a lattice or infinitely generated of the first kind if there is a so-called ``one-cylinder direction'' in the base origami. However, in general, it is hard to decide which of the two possibilities arises.
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    Veech groups
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    infinite translation surfaces
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    holomorphic differentials
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