Geodesic intersections and isoxial Fuchsian groups

DOI10.5802/AFST.1606MaRDI QIDQ2292299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Greg McShane

Publication date 3 February 2020

Published in Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08958

zbMATH Keywords

angle spectrumcommensurabilityFuchsian grouplength spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30)

Abstract: The set of axes of hyperbolic elements in a Fuchsian group depends on the commensurability class of the group. In fact, it has been conjectured that it determines the commensurability class and this has been verified in for groups of the second kind by G. Mess and for arithemetic groups by by D. Long and A. Reid. Here we show that the conjecture holds for almost all Fuchsian groups and explain why our method fails for arithemetic groups.

Review text

Two Fuchsian groups are isoaxial if they share the same set of axes. For instance, two commensurable groups (that is, if they share a common subgroup of finite index) are isoaxial. For a given Fuchsian group, its set of axes of hyperbolic elements depends on the commensurability class of the group. A natural question is whether isoaxiality implies commensurability. In the paper under review, the author shows that this holds for almost all Fuchsian groups. More precisely, he proves the following: For almost every point in the Teichmüller space of a hyperbolic surface, the corresponding Fuchsian representation of the fundamental group is deteremined by its axes. The paper contains also a discussion about angle spectra of Fuchsian groups and isoaxial groups having the same angles.

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