The Jacobian of a Riemann surface and the geometry of the cut locus of simple closed geodesics

DOI10.5186/AASFM.2017.4242zbMATH Open1372.14025arXiv1202.0782OpenAlexW1822091090MaRDI QIDQ5350307FDOQ5350307

Authors: Bjoern Muetzel 

Publication date: 28 August 2017

Published in: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: To any compact Riemann surface of genus g one may assign a principally polarized abelian variety of dimension g, the Jacobian of the Riemann surface. The Jacobian is a complex torus, and a Gram matrix of the lattice of a Jacobian is called a period Gram matrix. This paper provides upper and lower bounds for all the entries of the period Gram matrix with respect to a suitable homology basis. These bounds depend on the geometry of the cut locus of non-separating simple closed geodesics. Assuming that the cut loci can be calculated, a theoretical approach is presented followed by an example where the upper bound is sharp. Finally we give practical estimates based on the Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates of surfaces of signature (1,1), or Q-pieces. The methods developed here have been applied to surfaces that contain small non-separating simple closed geodesics in [BMMS].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0782

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zbMATH Keywords

energyhyperbolic geometryJacobiansRiemann surfacesharmonic forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Theta functions and curves; Schottky problem (14H42) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) Harmonic functions on Riemann surfaces (30F15)

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