Coding of closed geodesics after Gauss and Morse

DOI10.1007/BF00148213zbMath0884.20030MaRDI QIDQ1815257

Svetlana Katok

Publication date: 31 March 1998

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00148213

zbMATH Keywords

Fuchsian groups; arithmetic codes; fundamental regions; codes of closed geodesics; conjugacy classes of hyperbolic matrices; geometry codes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20H05: Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects)

20H10: Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects)

53D25: Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry

37D40: Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.)

11H55: Quadratic forms (reduction theory, extreme forms, etc.)

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