Horocycle flow orbits and lattice surface characterizations

DOI10.1017/ETDS.2017.82zbMATH Open1420.37019arXiv1508.02801OpenAlexW3099056021MaRDI QIDQ5376545FDOQ5376545

Authors: Jon Chaika, Kathryn Lindsey 

Publication date: 13 May 2019

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The orbit closure of any translation surface under the horocycle flow in almost any direction equals its $S{L}_2(mathbbR)$ orbit closure. This result gives rise to new characterizations of lattice surfaces in terms of the hororcycle flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02801

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zbMATH Keywords

horocycle flowtranslational surfaceslattice surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15)

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• Singularity of the spectrum for smooth area-preserving flows in genus two and translation surfaces well approximated by cylinders
• Angels' staircases, Sturmian sequences, and trajectories on homothety surfaces
• Horospherical dynamics in invariant subvarieties
• A Poincaré section for the horocycle flow on the space of lattices
• Bounds on the Hausdorff Dimension of Teichmüller Horocycle Flow Orbit Closures
• Horizon saddle connections and Morse-Smale dynamics of dilation surfaces
• Backward Rauzy-Veech algorithm and horizontal saddle connections
• Characterizations of lattice surfaces
• Veech’s dichotomy and the lattice property
• Two algorithms for closed horocycles on the modular surface
• Existence of closed geodesics through a regular point on translation surfaces
• A transversal for horocycle flow on \(\mathcal{H}(\alpha)\)

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