Cutting sequences on square-tiled surfaces

DOI10.1007/S10711-017-0227-ZzbMATH Open1406.37038arXiv1605.05659OpenAlexW2407716762MaRDI QIDQ1678552FDOQ1678552

Chris Johnson

Publication date: 17 November 2017

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We characterize cutting sequences of infinite geodesics on square-tiled surfaces by considering interval exchanges on specially chosen intervals on the surface. These interval exchanges can be thought of as skew products over a rotation, and we convert cutting sequences to symbolic trajectories of these interval exchanges to show that special types of combinatorial lifts of Sturmian sequences completely describe all cutting sequences on a square-tiled surface. Our results extend the list of families of surfaces where cutting sequences are understood to a dense subset of the moduli space of all translation surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05659

zbMATH Keywords

translation surfacesquare-tiled surfacecutting sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Combinatorial dynamics (types of periodic orbits) (37E15) Flows on surfaces (37E35)

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