Finiteness results for flat surfaces: large cusps and short geodesics

DOI10.4171/CMH/197zbMATH Open1189.57017arXiv0802.0919MaRDI QIDQ2269703FDOQ2269703

Authors: John Smillie, Barak Weiss 

Publication date: 17 March 2010

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For fixed g and T we show that finiteness of the set of affine equivalence classes of flat surfaces of genus g whose Veech groups contain a cusp of hyperbolic co-area less than T. We obtain new restrictions on Veech groups: we show that any non-elementary Veech group can appear only finitely many times in a fixed stratum, that any non-elementary Veech group is of finite index in its normalizer, and that the quotient of the upper half plane by a non-lattice Veech group contains arbitrarily large embedded disks. These are proved using the finiteness of the set of affine equivalence classes of flat surfaces of genus g whose Veech group contains a hyperbolic element with eigenvalue less than T.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0919

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov partitionFuchsian groupVeech groupflat surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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