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A translation surface in the Heisenberg group is constructed as the product of two planar curves. We classify a type of such surfaces with vanishing intrinsic curvature by analyzing the determinant of their Gauss map

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Christiam Figueroa

We show that the infinite staircases which arise in the ellipsoid embedding functions of rigid del Pezzo surfaces (with their monotone symplectic forms) can be entirely explained in terms of rational sesquicuspidal symplectic curves.…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Dusa McDuff , Kyler Siegel

We construct a general class of correspondences on hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus that combine finitely many Fuchsian genus zero orbifold groups and Blaschke products. As an intermediate step, we first construct analytic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Sabyasachi Mukherjee , S. Viswanathan

We classify the Rauzy-Veech groups of all connected components of all strata of the moduli space of translation surfaces in absolute homology, showing, in particular, that they are commensurable to arithmetic lattices of symplectic groups.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Rodolfo Gutiérrez-Romo

We establish the background for the study of geodesics on noncompact polygonal surfaces. For illustration, we study the recurrence of geodesics on $Z$-periodic polygonal surfaces. We prove, in particular, that almost all geodesics on a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Eugene Gutkin

We introduce and study tame homeomorphisms of surfaces of infinite type. These are maps for which curves under iterations do not accumulate onto geodesic laminations with non-proper leaves, but rather just a union of possibly intersecting…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Mladen Bestvina , Federica Fanoni , Jing Tao

We compute the Zariski closure of the Kontsevich-Zorich monodromy groups arising from certain square tiled surfaces that are geometrically motivated. Specifically we consider three surfaces that emerge as translation covers of platonic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Rodolfo Gutiérrez-Romo , Dami Lee , Anthony Sanchez

In this paper, we investigate the trace set of a Fuchsian lattice. There are two results of this paper: the first is that for a non-uniform lattice, we prove Scmutz's conjecture: the trace set of a Fuchsian lattice exhibits linear growth if…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Yanlong Hao

A finite presentation for the subgroup of the mapping class group of a compact non-orientable surface generated by all Dehn twists was given by Stukow. In this paper, we give an infinite presentation for this group, mainly using the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Ryoma Kobayashi , Genki Omori

In this century, a square-tiled translation surface (an origami) is intensively studied as an object with special properties of its translation structure and its $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$-orbit embedded in the moduli space. We generalize this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Shun Kumagai

Let $(M,\omega)$ be a translation surface such that every leaf of its horizontal foliation is either closed, or joins two zeros of $\omega$. Then, $M$ decomposes as a union of horizontal Euclidean cylinders. The $\textit{twist torus}$ of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Jon Chaika , Osama Khalil

We give an infinite presentation for the mapping class group of a non-orientable surface. The generating set consists of all Dehn twists and all crosscap pushing maps along simple loops.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Genki Omori

We investigate specific examples of locally-defined real vector-fields on strata of translation surfaces. Integrating SL(2,R)-loci of Veech surfaces along these vector-fields yield interesting new examples of horocyle-invariant ergodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Lucien Clavier

Hyperbolic buildings are central objects in both hyperbolic geometry and geometric group theory, exhibiting a wide range of intriguing characteristics, especially with respect to group actions. In this paper, we develop the theory of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Donghae Lee

A translational surface is a tensor product surface constructed from two space curves by translating one along the other. These surfaces are common within geometric modeling and, since their description is parametric, it is desirable to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Matthew Weaver

We study surfaces in Euclidean space constructed by the sum of two curves or that are graphs of the product of two functions. We consider the problem to determine all these surfaces with constant Gauss curvature. We extend the results to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Rafael López , Marilena Moruz

In this article, we extend Huisken's theorem that convex surfaces flow to round points by mean curvature flow. We construct certain classes of mean convex and non-mean convex hypersurfaces that shrink to round points and use these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Alexander Mramor , Alec Payne

By considering appropriate finite covering spaces of closed non-orientable surfaces, we construct linear representations of their mapping class group which have finite index image in certain big arithmetic groups.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-20 Ferit Deniz , Wilhelm Singhof

In this paper, we introduce a collection of purely loxodromic free Kleinian groups, called infinite Schottky group, which are defined by a suitable collection of simple loops in a similar way as in the case for Schottky groups of finite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Rubén A. Hidalgo

We review the different notions about translation surfaces which are necessary to understand McMullen's classification of $GL_2^+(\mathbb{R})$-orbit closures in genus two. In Section 2 we recall the different definitions of a translation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Daniel Massart