The double torus as a 2D cosmos: groups, geometry and closed geodesics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/8/312MaRDI QIDQ4545285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Peter Kramer, Miguel Lorente

Publication date 15 August 2002

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0401101

zbMATH Keywords

tessellationclosed geodesicshyperbolic Coxeter grouprelativistic modelhyperbolic crystallography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Abstract: The double torus provides a relativistic model for a closed 2D cosmos with topology of genus 2 and constant negative curvature. Its unfolding into an octagon extends to an octagonal tessellation of its universal covering, the hyperbolic space H^2. The tessellation is analysed with tools from hyperbolic crystallography. Actions on H^2 of groups/subgroups are identified for SU(1, 1), for a hyperbolic Coxeter group acting also on SU(1, 1), and for the homotopy group Phi_2 whose extension is normal in the Coxeter group. Closed geodesics arise from links on H^2 between octagon centres. The direction and length of the shortest closed geodesics is computed.

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