Stellar foliation structures on surfaces
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General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)
Abstract: We introduce the notion of a zebra structure on a surface, which is a more general geometric structure than a translation structure or a dilation structure that still gives a directional foliation of every slope. We are concerned with the question of when a free homotopy class of loops (or a homotopy class of arcs relative to endpoints) has a canonical representative or family of representatives, either as closed leaves or chains of leaves joining singularities. We prove that such representations exist if the surface has a triangulation with edges joining singularities (in the zebra structure sense). Our results hold for both closed surfaces and non-compact surfaces.
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