On the Teichmüller geodesic generated by the L-shaped translation surface tiled by three squares (Q380433)

The author studies the Riemann surfaces of genus 2 defined by the orbit of the L-shaped translation surfaces tiled by three squares under the Teichmüller geodesic flow. These surfaces can be seen, among other descriptions, as real algebraic curves with three real components, and hence as real M-curves. The goal of the paper is to describe the surfaces by means of their period matrices. The author proves that the only Riemann surface in the family admitting a non-hyperelliptic automorphism comes from the translation surface tiled by the three squares, and so the classical methods do not apply for the other members of the family. The main results of the paper are Theorem A, and especially Theorem B, which gives necessary and sufficient conditions in order that a given matrix be a period matrix of a Riemann surface in the family, associated to a certain homology basis, which is described carefully.