The Lagrange spectrum of some square-tiled surfaces (Q1650451)

Lagrange spectra have been defined for closed submanifolds of the moduli space of translation surfaces which are invariant under the action of the group \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb R)\). The authors consider the closed orbit generated by a particular covering of degree seven of the standard torus which is an element of the stratum \(\mathcal H(2)\). They give an explicit formula for the values in the associated Lagrange spectrum in terms of a cocycle over the classical continued fraction. The authors find an isolated minimum and a set with a rich structure right above it. This results is different from the classical case of the modular surface, where the lowest part of the Lagrange spectrum is discrete.