Closed Geodesics on a Riemann Surface With Application to the Markov Spectrum

DOI10.2307/2000055zbMath0597.10024MaRDI QIDQ3728986

Mark Sheingorn, Joseph Lehner, Alan F. Beardon

Publication date: 1986

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2000055

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann surface; closed geodesics; Markoff forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

11J70: Continued fractions and generalizations

11F06: Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups

11F11: Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight

58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)

30F35: Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization)

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