Canonical translation surfaces for computing Veech groups

DOI10.1007/S10711-022-00723-5MaRDI QIDQ6356755arXivFDO

Authors Brandon Edwards, Slade Sanderson, Thomas A. Schmidt

Publication date 22 December 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S10711-022-00723-5

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Fuchsian and Kleinian groups as dynamical systems (37F32) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20)

arXiv classification

math.DSmath.GT

Abstract: For each stratum of the space of translation surfaces, we introduce an infinite translation surface containing in an appropriate manner a copy of every translation surface of the stratum. Given a translation surface $(X,omega)$ in the stratum, a matrix is in its Veech group $mathrmSL(X,omega)$ if and only if an associated affine automorphism of the infinite surface sends each of a finite set, the ``marked" {em Voronoi staples}, arising from orientation-paired segments appropriately perpendicular to Voronoi 1-cells, to another pair of orientation-paired ``marked" segments. We prove a result of independent interest. For each real $agesqrt2$ there is an explicit hyperbolic ball such that for any Fuchsian group trivially stabilizing $i$, the Dirichlet domain centered at $i$ of the group already agrees within the ball with the intersection of the hyperbolic half-planes determined by the group elements whose Frobenius norm is at most $a$. %When $mathrmSL(X,omega)$ is a lattice we use this to give a condition guaranteeing that the full group $mathrmSL(X,omega)$ has been computed. Together, these results give rise to a new algorithm for computing Veech groups.

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