Typical geodesics on flat surfaces

DOI10.1090/S1088-4173-2011-00234-7MaRDI QIDQ2888645zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Klaus Dankwart

Publication date 1 June 2012

Published in Conformal Geometry and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4061

zbMATH Keywords

conformal classflat surfacegeodesicsGromov boundaryhyperbolic metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60)

Abstract: We investigate typical behavior of geodesics on a closed flat surface $S$ of genus $ggeq2$. We compare the length quotient of long arcs in the same homotopy class with fixed endpoints for the flat and the hyperbolic metric in the same conformal class. This quotient is asymptotically constant $F$ a.e. We show that $F$ is bounded from below by the inverse of the volume entropy $e(S)$. Moreover, we construct a geodesic flow together with a measure on $S$ which is induced by the Hausdorff measure of the Gromov boundary of the universal cover. Denote by $e(S)$ the volume entropy of $S$ and let $c$ be a compact geodesic arc which connects singularities. We show that a typical geodesic passes through $c$ with frequency that is comparable to $exp(-e(S)l(c))$. Thus a typical bi-infinite geodesic contains infinitely many singularities, and each geodesic between singularities $c$ appears infinitely often with a frequency proportional to $exp(-e(S)l(c))$.

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