GL^+(2, R)-orbits in Prym eigenform loci

DOI10.2140/GT.2016.20.1359MaRDI QIDQ309020zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erwan Lanneau, Duc-Manh Nguyen

Publication date 7 September 2016

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8537

zbMATH Keywords

abelian differentialsorbit closuresPrym loci

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30) 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)

Abstract: This paper is devoted to the classification of GL^+(2,R)-orbit closures of surfaces in the intersection of the Prym eigenform locus with various strata of quadratic differentials. We show that the following dichotomy holds: an orbit is either closed or dense in a connected component of the Prym eigenform locus. The proof uses several topological properties of Prym eigenforms, which are proved by the authors in a previous work. In particular the tools and the proof are independent of the recent results of Eskin-Mirzakhani-Mohammadi. As an application we obtain a finiteness result for the number of closed GL^+(2,R)-orbits (not necessarily primitive) in the Prym eigenform locus Prym_D(2,2) for any fixed D that is not a square.

Review text

An \textit{abelian differential} is a pair \((X, \omega)\) where \(X\) is a compact genus \(g\) Riemann surface and \(\omega\) a holomorphic one-form. An abelian differential yields local coordinates on the surface (away from its zeros) via integration, the transition maps for this atlas of charts are translations, giving rise to the alternate terminology \textit{translation surface}. The moduli space of genus \(g\) abelian differentials \(\Omega_g\) is stratified into pieces \(\mathcal H(\alpha)\) by integer partitions \(\alpha\) of \(2g-2\) (possible orders of distinct zeros of \(\omega\)). The group \(\mathrm{GL}^+(2, \mathbb R)\) acts on these spaces via postcomposition with the translation charts, and the dynamics of this action serves as a renormalization dynamics for linear flows on translation surfaces and in particular for billiard flows on rational polygons. The study of \(\mathrm{GL}^+(2, \mathbb R)\) orbit closures has been extremely active, with a very important recent result of Eskin-Mirzakahani-Mohammadi stating that these orbit closures are always affine manifolds in the period coordinates (which view each \(\omega\) as an element of cohomology of the surface relative to the zeros) on strata.NEWLINENEWLINEAn important class of subloci of strata are Prym eigenform loci, which are defined in terms of the Jacobian of the associated Riemann surface having extra symmetries. The main result of the paper is that \(\mathrm{GL}^+(2, \mathbb R)\) orbit closures in Prym loci are either closed (i.e., the orbit itself) or the entire Prym locus.

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