Parallelogram decompositions and generic surfaces in \(\mathcal H^{\text{hyp}}(4)\) (Q640346)

The space \(\mathcal{H}^{\text{hyp}}(4)\) is one of the two connected components of the the stratum of the space of holomorphic 1-forms on a closed Riemann surface of genus 3 that consists of holomorphic 1-forms that are defined on hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces,. The unique zero of a 1-form is necessarily a Weierstrass point. Equivalently, \(\mathcal{H}^{\text{hyp}}(4)\) is the space of translation surfaces of genus 3 having one singularity, such that there exists an isometric involution which has exactly 8 fixed points, and acts by \(-\mathrm{Id}\) on homology. In the paper under review, the author shows that every surface in \(\mathcal{H}^{\text{hyp}}(4)\) admits a decomposition into parallelograms and simple cylinders following a unique model. As a by-product, he shows that if \(\Sigma_0\) is a surface in \(\mathcal{H}^{\text{hyp}}(4)\) such that any of its horizontal directions of is either a closed geodesic or a saddle connection, and if \(\Sigma_0\) is decomposed into three horizontal cylinders whose moduli are independent over \(\mathbb{Q}\), then the orbit \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\cdot \Sigma_0\) is dense in \(\mathcal{H}^{\text{hyp}}(4)\). The author also constructs explicitly some Thurston-Veech surfaces with trace field of degree three over \(\mathbb{Q}\) which satisfy the above hypotheses on \(\Sigma_0\).