Low height geodesics and the Markoff spectrum
Geometric Topology
2010-05-14 v2 Number Theory
Abstract
We classify, in terms of topology of highest arcs, low height non-simple geodesics on the modular hyperbolic punctured sphere with three elliptic fixed points of order two. Of eight possible types, exactly one consists of geodesics that form a bigon about the cusp; we express all such geodesics in terms of Markoff triples. We also show that any geodesic joining two elliptic fixed points has locally isolated height.
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@article{arxiv.math/0410197,
title = {Low height geodesics and the Markoff spectrum},
author = {Thomas A. Schmidt and Mark Sheingorn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0410197},
year = {2010}
}
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