Length spectra and strata of flat metrics

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Abstract: In this paper we consider strata of flat metrics coming from quadratic differentials (semi-translation structures) on surfaces of finite type. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for a set of simple closed curves to be spectrally rigid over a stratum with enough complexity, extending a result of Duchin-Leininger-Rafi. Specifically, for any stratum with more zeroes than the genus, the length spectrum of a set of simple closed curves determines the flat metric in the stratum if and only if the set is dense in the projective measured foliation space. We also prove that flat metrics in any stratum are locally determined by the length spectrum of a finite set of closed curves.


In recent work \textit{M. Duchin, C. J. Leininger} and \textit{K. Rafi} [Invent. Math. 182, No. 2, 231--277 (2010; Zbl 1207.53052)] studied the length spectral rigidity problem for the space of flat metrics coming from quadratic differentials on surfaces. In this paper the author extends their results to strata of flat metrics. Let \(S\) be a surface of finite type with genus \(g\) and \(n\) marked points that satisfies \(3g + n - 3 \geq 2.\) Recall that a stratum is determined by \(\alpha=(\alpha_{1},\dots,\alpha_{k};\varepsilon),\) where \(k=k_{0}+n,\) \(k_{0}\) is the number of zeroes at non-marked points, \(\alpha_{1},\dots,\alpha_{k_{0}}\) are the order of the zeroes, \(\alpha_{k_{0}+1},\dots,\alpha_{k}\) are the orders at the marked points, and \(\varepsilon=\pm1\) is the holonomy. Theorem 1. Let \(\alpha = (\alpha_{1},\dots,\alpha_{k}; \varepsilon),\) and \(2k_{0} - 2g + \varepsilon + 1 > 0.\) Then a set of simple closed curves \(\Sigma \subset \mathcal{S}(S)\) is spectrally rigid over \(\mathsf{Flat}(S,\alpha)\) if and only if \(\overline{\Sigma} = \mathcal{PMF}(S).\) The key technical results needed for this is a new, more flexible construction of deformation families of a constant \(\Sigma\)-length-spectrum.











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