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Cusp shapes of Hilbert-Blumenthal surfaces

Geometric Topology 2020-05-05 v6 Number Theory

Abstract

We introduce a new fundamental domain for the cusp stabilizer of a Hilbert modular group over a real quadratic field K=Q(sqrt n). This is constructed as the union of Dirichlet domains for the maximal unipotent group, over the leaves in a foliation of the biplane. The region is the Cartesian product of the positive reals with a 3-dimensional tower formed by deformations of lattices in the ring of integers of K, and makes explicit the cusp cross section's Sol 3-manifold structure and Anosov diffeomorphism. We include computer generated images and data illustrating various examples.

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@article{arxiv.1711.02418,
  title  = {Cusp shapes of Hilbert-Blumenthal surfaces},
  author = {Joseph Quinn and Alberto Verjovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02418},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables

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