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The notion of an unexpected curve in the plane was introduced in 2018, and was quickly generalized in several directions in a flurry of mathematical activity by many authors. In this expository paper we first describe some of the main…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Brian Harbourne , Juan Migliore , Uwe Nagel

The Veech group of a translation surface is the group of Jacobians of orientation-preserving affine automorphisms of the surface. We present an algorithm which constructs all translation surfaces with a given lattice Veech group in any…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Slade Sanderson

Quasi-vertex-transitive maps are the homogeneous maps on the plane with finitely many vertex orbits under the action of their automorphism groups. We show that there exist quasi-vertex-transitive maps of types $[p^3, 3]$ for $p \equiv 1$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Arun Maiti

A nice trick for studying the billiard flow in a rational polygon is to unfold the polygon along the trajectories. This gives rise to a translation or half-translation surface tiled by the original polygon, or equivalently an Abelian or…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Samuel Lelièvre

The paper contains a general construction which produces new examples of non simply-connected smooth projective surfaces. We analyze the resulting surfaces and their fundamental groups. Many of these fundamental groups are expected to be…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Fedor Bogomolov , Ludmil Katzarkov

We describe a method to show that certain elliptic surfaces do not admit purely inseparable multisections (equivalently, that genus one curves over function fields admit no points over the perfect closure of the base field) and use it to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Daniel Bragg , Max Lieblich

In this work for the first time we enumerate unlabelled maps on orientable genus $g$ surfaces with respect to all homeomorphisms, including both orientation-preserving and orientation-reversing. We show that in the latter case as an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Evgeniy Krasko , Alexander Omelchenko

We show that generic infinite group extensions of geodesic flows on square tiled translation surfaces are ergodic in almost every direction, subject to certain natural constraints. Recently K. Fr\c{a}czek and C. Ulcigrai have shown that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-01-09 David Ralston , Serge Troubetzkoy

Motivated by the study of billiards in polyhedra, we study linear flows in a family of singular flat $3$-manifolds which we call translation prisms. Using ideas of Furstenberg and Veech, we connect results about weak mixing properties of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Jayadev S. Athreya , Nicolas Bédaride , W. Patrick Hooper , Pascal Hubert

We provide a complete classification of groups that can be realized as isometry groups of a translation surface $M$ with non-finitely generated fundamental group and no planar ends. Furthermore, we demonstrate that if $S$ has no…

A triangulation of a surface is irreducible if there is no edge whose contraction produces another triangulation of the surface. In this work we propose an algorithm that constructs the set of irreducible triangulations of any surface with…

We characterize subgroups of the mapping class group that stabilize a Teichmueller disk in terms of ellipses and strips that are immersed in the associated translation surface. In particular, we show that the space of immersed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-12-24 S. Allen Broughton , Chris Judge

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 explicitly compute the limiting slope gap distribution for saddle connections on any 2n-gon. Our calculations show that the slope gap distribution for a translation surface is not always unimodal, answering a question of Athreya. We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Jonah Berman , Taylor McAdam , Ananth Miller-Murthy , Caglar Uyanik , Hamilton Wan

Quadratic points of a surface in the projective 3-space are the points which can be exceptionally well approximated by a quadric. They are also singularities of a 3-web in the elliptic part and of a line field in the hyperbolic part of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Marcos Craizer , Ronaldo Alves Garcia

Surfaces and curves play an important role in geometric design. In recent years, problem of finding a surface passing through a given curve have attracted much interest. In the present paper, we propose a new method to construct a surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Gulnur Saffak Atalay , Fatma Guler , Ergin Bayram , Emin Kasap

The first undecidability result on the tiling is the undecidability of translational tiling of the plane with Wang tiles, where there is an additional color matching requirement. Later, researchers obtained several undecidability results on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

It is well-known that on any Veech surface, the dynamics in any minimal direction is uniquely ergodic. In this paper it is shown that for any genus 2 translation surface which is not a Veech surface there are uncountably many minimal but…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Y. Cheung , H. Masur

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

One can embed arbitrarily many disjoint, non-parallel, non-boundary parallel, incompressible surfaces in any three manifold with at least one boundary component of genus two or greater [4]. This paper proves the contrasting, but not…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hugh Nelson Howards