Translation surfaces with no convex presentation

DOI10.1007/S00039-015-0349-0MaRDI QIDQ903082zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel Lelièvre, Barak Weiss

Publication date 4 January 2016

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3606

zbMATH Keywords

presentation as a union of polygonstranslation surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15)

Abstract: We give infinite lists of translations surfaces with no convex presentations. We classify the surfaces in the stratum H(2) which do not have convex presentations, as well as those with no strictly convex presentations. We show that in H(1,1), all surfaces in the eigenform loci E_4, E_9 or E_{16} have no strictly convex presentation, and that the list of surfaces with no convex presentations in H(1,1) - (E_4 union E_9 union E_{16}) is finite and consists of square-tiled surfaces. We prove the existence of non-lattice surfaces without strictly convex presentations in all of the strata H^{(hyp)}(g-1, g-1).

Review text

A translation surface is a union of polygons with pairs of parallel edges identified by translation, up to cut and paste equivalence. The cut and paste equivalence means that the same translation surface has many presentations as unions of polygons. A natural question is whether there is such a presentation, in which the polygon can be taken to be convex. In 1992 Veech was the first to exhibit a surface with no presentations as convex polygons. The authors review his examples and give new ones which include the Veech double \(n\)-gons, the Escher staircases, the Ward examples and the Bouw-Moeller examples. Translation surfaces are naturally grouped in strata, which are moduli spaces of translation surfaces for which the combinatorics of singularities is fixed. In this paper the authors take up the question of classifying surfaces with no convex presentations in the simples strata, namely the genus-two strata \(H(2)\) and \(H(1,1)\). They give infinite lists of translation surfaces with no convex presentations. The authors classify also the surfaces in the stratum \(H(2)\) which do not have strictly convex presentations.

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