Veech surfaces and complete periodicity in genus two (Q4821032)

A translation surface is a closed Riemannian manifold~\(M\) with an Abelian differential~\(\omega\) on~\(M\) satisfying that away from the zeros of~\(\omega\) the charts can be chosen such that the change of charts are translations. Consider the geodesics on this surface. A direction~\(v\) is said to be completely periodic if every trajectory in direction~\(v\) is either closed or begins and ends in a singularity. The surface~\((M,\omega )\) is called completely periodic if any direction in which there is at least one cylinder of closed trajectories is completely periodic. There is an action of \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\) on the space of translation surfaces. A translation surface having a lattice stabilizer under this action is called Veech surface. According to \textit{W.~Veech} [Invent. Math. 97, 553--583 (1989; Zbl 0676.32006)], every Veech surface is completely periodic, but the converse need not be true. In this paper, translation surfaces of genus two are investigated. Then either \(\omega\) has two single zeros or \(\omega\) has one double zero. Conditions implying the surface to be a Veech surface are presented. The main tool in the proofs is a method developped by \textit{R.~Kenyon} and \textit{J.~Smillie} [Comment. Math. Helv. 75, 65--108 (2000; Zbl 0967.37019)].