Oblivious points on translation surfaces (Q2070303)

\textit{D.-M. Nguyen} et al. [Math. Ann. 376, No. 1--2, 583--607 (2020; Zbl 07159963)] showed that a closed translation surface contains only finitely many points that are not contained in some simple closed geodesics. The authors called such points oblivious. They investigated oblivious points on translation surfaces and showed that the preimage of an oblivious point under a fully ramified translation cover is oblivious and in a regularly tiled polygonal translation surface any oblivious point must be a vertex point. It follows that no translation surface tiled by a regular triangle, square, or hexagon admits an oblivious point. Furthermore, by considering GL\(_2(\mathbb{R})\) orbits it suffices to consider square tiled surfaces when investigating oblivious points. \textit{D.-M. Nguyen} et al. [loc. cit.] constructed a square-tiled translation surface \(X\) with exactly one oblivious point. In this paper the authors use \(n\) copies of \(X\) and a gluing process along slits in each of the \(n\) copies to construct a connected translation surface with exactly \(n\) oblivious points. By considering suitable strata it is shown that for every \(g\ge 4\) there exists a surface of genus \(g\) that has an oblivious point and that no surface of genus 1 or 2 has an oblivious point. They provide an alternative method which works in all genus \(g \ge 3\) to prove their main results, generating oblivious points by branching over specific points on a square torus. In particular, for every odd integer \(m = kn^2\), \(k,n \ge 3\), there exists a square tiled surface with \(m\) tiles and exactly \(k\) oblivious points on it.