Systolic geometry of translation surfaces
Geometric Topology
2022-09-13 v4 Complex Variables
Metric Geometry
Abstract
In this paper we investigate the systolic landscape of translation surfaces for fixed genus and fixed angles of their cone points. We furthermore study how the systoles of a translation surface relate to the systoles of its graph of saddle connections. This allows us to develop an algorithm to compute the systolic ratio of origamis in the stratum . We compute the maximal systolic ratio of all origamis in with up to 67 squares. These computations support a conjecture of Judge and Parlier about the maximal systolic ratio in .
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@article{arxiv.1809.10327,
title = {Systolic geometry of translation surfaces},
author = {Tobias Columbus and Frank Herrlich and Bjoern Muetzel and Gabriela Weitze-Schmithüsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.10327},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
25 pages, 4 figures. Overworked version with corrections, in particular: Theorem 3.1, Theorem 4.9 and Lemma 5.4