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We study the simply connected inextendable Lorentzian surfaces admitting a Killing vector field. We construct a natural family of such surfaces, that we call "universal extensions". They are characterized by a condition of symmetry, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-18 Christophe Bavard , Pierre Mounoud

Big mapping class groups are the mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces, that is, surfaces whose fundamental groups are not finitely generated. While mapping class groups of finite-type surfaces have been extensively studied, the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Celal Can Bellek

Ratner's theorem implies topological rigidity of immersed totally geodesic subspaces of noncompact type in finite-volume locally symmetric spaces. In higher rank and infinite volume, however, counter-examples to this rigidity have remained…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Subhadip Dey , Hee Oh

Following recent work of T. Alazard and C. Shao on applications of para-differential calculus to smooth conjugacy and stability problems for Hamiltonian systems, we prove finite codimension stability of invariant surfaces (in finite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Giovanni Forni

We provide evidence both for and against a conjectural analogy between geometrically finite infinite covolume Fuchsian groups and the mapping class group of compact non-orientable surfaces. In the positive direction, we show the complement…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Sayantan Khan

In this paper, we use the conjugate surface construction to prove the existence of certain non-periodic symmetric immersed minimal surfaces. These surfaces have finite total curvature and embedded catenoid ends, and they have positive genus…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-29 Jorgen Berglund , Wayne Rossman

Differential equations are derived for a continuous limit of iterated Schwarzian reflection of analytic curves, and solutions are interpreted as geodesics in an infinite-dimensional symmetric space geometry.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Annalisa Calini , Joel Langer

The family of translation surfaces $(X_g,\omega_g)$ constructed by Arnoux and Yoccoz from self-similar interval exchange maps encompasses one example from each genus $g$ greater than or equal to $3$. We triangulate these surfaces and deduce…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-03 Joshua P. Bowman

Cauchy-compact flat spacetimes with extreme BTZ are Lorentzian analogue of complete hyperbolic surfaces of finite volume. Indeed, the latter are 2-manifolds locally modeled on the hyperbolic plane, with group of isometries…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Léo Brunswic

We study a class of finite-area, infinite-type translation surfaces, and find an explicit cylinder decomposition on these surfaces which do not manifest on finite-type translation surfaces. Each cylinder decomposition contains a special…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Dami Lee , Josh Southerland

As shown by Masur in 80s, for any translation surface there exists a periodic geodesic of bounded length, the directions of periodic geodesics are dense in the unit circle, and the number of cylinders of periodic geodesics of length at most…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yaroslav Vorobets

We answer two questions about the topology of end spaces of infinite type surfaces and the action of the mapping class group that have appeared in the literature. First, we give examples of infinite type surfaces with end spaces that are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Kathryn Mann , Kasra Rafi

Chapters : Old and new inequalities; Surfaces with $\chi=1$ and the bicanonical map; Surfaces with $p_g=4$; Surfaces isogeneous to a product, Beauville surfaces and the absolute Galois group;Lefschetz pencils and braid monodromies;DEF, DIFF…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Ingrid Bauer , Fabrizio Catanese , Roberto Pignatelli

We show that for any lattice Veech group in the mapping class group $\mathrm{Mod}(S)$ of a closed surface $S$, the associated $\pi_1 S$--extension group is a hierarchically hyperbolic group. As a consequence, we prove that any such…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Spencer Dowdall , Matthew G. Durham , Christopher J. Leininger , Alessandro Sisto

Square-tiled surfaces are a class of translation surfaces that are of particular interest in geometry and dynamics because, as covers of the square torus, they share some of its simplicity and structure. In this paper, we study counting…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-03 Sunrose T. Shrestha , Jane Wang

We provide sufficient conditions for two subgroups of a hierarchically hyperbolic group to generate an amalgamated free product over their intersection. The result applies in particular to certain geometric subgroups of mapping class groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Giorgio Mangioni

We give conditions for topological and bi-Lipschitz equivalences within a class of mixed singularities of Pham-Brieskorn type. As a consequence, we construct infinite families that are topologically trivial but have distinct bi-Lipschitz…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Inácio Rabelo

We study translation covers of several triply periodic polyhedral surfaces that are intrinsically Platonic. We describe their affine symmetry groups and compute the quadratic asymptotics for counting saddle connections and cylinders,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Jayadev S. Athreya , Dami Lee

This paper continues the study of the ellipsoid embedding function of symplectic Hirzebruch surfaces parametrized by $b \in (0,1)$, the size of the symplectic blow-up. Cristofaro-Gardiner, et al. (arxiv: 2004.13062) found that if the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-12 Nicki Magill

We consider conditions on the Fenchel-Nielsen parameters of a Riemann surface $X$ that guarantee the surface $X$ is of parabolic type. An interesting class of Riemann surfaces for this problem is the one with finitely many topological ends.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Michael Pandazis , Dragomir Šarić