Introduction to Teichmüller theory and its applications to dynamics of interval exchange transformations, flows on surfaces and billiards

DOI10.3934/JMD.2014.8.271zbMATH Open1377.37057arXiv1311.2758OpenAlexW2962811277MaRDI QIDQ2344796FDOQ2344796

Authors: Giovanni Forni, Carlos Matheus 

Publication date: 18 May 2015

Published in: Journal of Modern Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This text is an expanded version of the lecture notes of a minicourse (with the same title of this text) delivered by the authors in the Bedlewo school "Modern Dynamics and its Interaction with Analysis, Geometry and Number Theory" (from 4 to 16 July, 2011). In the first part of this text, i.e., from Sections 1 to 5, we discuss the Teichm"uller and moduli space of translation surfaces, the Teichm"uller flow and the SL(2,R)-action on these moduli spaces and the Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle over the Teichm"uller geodesic flow. We sketch two applications of the ergodic properties of the Teichm"uller flow and Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle, with respect to Masur-Veech measures, to the unique ergodicity, deviation of ergodic averages and weak mixing properties of typical interval exchange transformations and translation flows. These applications are based on the fundamental fact that the Teichm"uller flow and the Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle work as emph{renormalization dynamics} for interval exchange transformations and translation flows. In the second part, i.e., from Sections 6 to 9, we start by pointing out that it is interesting to study the ergodic properties of the Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle with respect to invariant measures other than the Masur-Veech ones, in view of potential applications to the investigation of billiards in rational polygons (for instance). We then study some examples of measures for which the ergodic properties of the Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle are very different from the case of Masur-Veech measures. Finally, we end these notes by constructing some examples of closed SL(2,R)-orbits such that the restriction of the Teichm"uller flow to them has arbitrary small rate of exponential mixing, or, equivalently, the naturally associated unitary SL(2,R)-representations have arbitrarily small spectral gap (and in particular it has complementary series).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2758

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zbMATH Keywords

Lyapunov exponentmoduli spacetranslation surfaceKontsevich-Zorich cocycleabelian differential\(\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{R})\)-actionTeichmüller flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) Period matrices, variation of Hodge structure; degenerations (32G20)

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