The distribution of gaps for saddle connection directions

DOI10.1007/S00039-012-0164-9MaRDI QIDQ1934644zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jayadev S. Athreya, Jon Chaika

Publication date 29 January 2013

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4298

zbMATH Keywords

holomorphic differentials on Riemann surfacessaddle connectionstranslation surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Flows on surfaces (37E35)

Abstract: Motivated by the study of billiards in polygons, we prove fine results for the distribution of gaps of directions of saddle connections on translation surfaces. As an application we prove that for almost every holomorphic differential $omega$ on a Riemann surface of genus $ggeq2$ the smallest gap between saddle connection directions of length at most a fixed length decays faster than quadratically in the length. We also characterize the exceptional set: the decay rate is not faster than quadratic if and only if $omega$ is a lattice surface.

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