Lattice surfaces and smallest triangles
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Lattice surfaces and smallest triangles
zbMATH Open document ID: 1366.37104
author: Chenxi Wu
published in: Geometriae Dedicata
publication date: 2017-04-13T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00908
review text: The Veech group of a translation surface is the discrete subgroup of \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\) consisting of the derivatives of its affine automorphisms. Lattice surfaces or Veech surfaces are translation surfaces whose Veech groups are lattices. For a lattice surface \(M\), the area of the smallest triangle is defined as \(\mathrm{Area}_T(M)=\inf\{\mathrm{Area}_{\Delta}\} / \mathrm{Area}(M)\), where \(\inf\{\mathrm{Area}_{\Delta}\}\) is the minimal area of embedded triangles formed by saddle connections and \(\mathrm{Area}(M)\) is the total area of the surface. For a lattice surface \(M\), the area of the smallest virtual triangle is defined as \(\mathrm{Area}_{VT}(M)=\frac{1}{2}\inf_{l,l'}||l\times l'||/\mathrm{Area}(M)\), where \(l\) and \(l'\) are the holonomies of non-parallel saddle connections and \(\mathrm{Area}(M)\) is the total area of the surface. In this article the author computes the quantities \(\mathrm{Area}_T\) and \(\mathrm{Area}_{VT}\) of all known primitive lattice surfaces except those in the Prym eigenform loci of \(\mathcal{H}(6)\). He also proves that the known list of lattice surfaces is complete up to \(\mathrm{Area}_{VT}>0.05\). In particular, this means that there are no new lattice surfaces for which the area of the smallest virtual triangle is greater than \(0.05\). His method is based on an algorithm developed by \textit{J. Smillie} and \textit{B. Weiss} [Invent. Math. 180, No. 3, 535--557 (2010; Zbl 1195.57041)].
reviewed by: Biplab Basak
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37E30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37E35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57Q15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M50
zbMATH DE Number: 6705648
zbMATH Keywords: translation surface
zbMATH Keywords: lattice surface
zbMATH Keywords: Thurston-Veech construction
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2963486700
arXiv ID: 1512.00908
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DOI: 10.1007/S10711-016-0191-Z
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