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We explicitly compute the limiting gap distribution for slopes of saddle connections on the flat surface associated to the regular octagon with opposite sides identified. This is the first such computation where the Veech group of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Caglar Uyanik , Grace Work

In this paper, we study the distribution of renormalized gaps between slopes of saddle connections on translation surfaces. Specifically, we describe a procedure for finding the "winning holonomy vectors" as defined by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Fernando Al Assal , Nada Ali , Uma Arengo , Taylor McAdam , Carson Newman , Noam Scully , Sophia Zhou

In this paper we review the theory of slope gap distributions of translation surfaces and summarize the state-of-the-art for calculating slope gap distributions of Veech surfaces. We then derive the slope gap distribution of a particular…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Taylor McAdam , Xiaoxing Yu

We compute the gap distribution of directions of saddle connections for two classes of translation surfaces. One class will be the translation surfaces arising from gluing two identical tori along a slit. These yield the first explicit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Anthony Sanchez

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

A translation surface is given by polygons in the plane, with sides identified by translations to create a closed Riemann surface with a flat structure away from finitely many singular points. Understanding geodesic flow on a surface…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Jon Chaika , Samantha Fairchild

We prove an effective slope gap distribution result first for the square torus and then for general lattice translation surfaces. As a corollary, we obtain a dynamical proof for an effective gap distribution result for the Farey fractions.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Tariq Osman , Joshua Southerland , Jane Wang

Motivated by the study of billiards in polygons, we prove fine results for the distribution of gaps of directions of saddle connections on translation surfaces. As an application we prove that for almost every holomorphic differential…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Jayadev S. Athreya , Jon Chaika

We determine the distribution of the number of saddle connections on a random translation surface of large genus. More specifically, for genus $g$ tending to infinity, the number of saddle connections with lengths in a given interval…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Howard Masur , Kasra Rafi , Anja Randecker

We consider saddle connections on a translation surface in a hyperelliptic connected component of a stratum that do not intersect the interior of a distinguished saddle connection. For this restricted set of saddle connections, we show that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-23 David Aulicino , Howard Masur , Huiping Pan , Weixu Su

In this paper the authors find examples of translation surfaces that have infinitely generated Veech groups, satisfy the topological dichotomy property that for every direction either the flow in that direction is completely periodic or…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-10-02 Yitwah Cheung , Pascal Hubert , Howard Masur

We study the SL(2,R)-infimal lengths of simple closed curves on half-translation surfaces. Our main result is a characterization of Veech surfaces in terms of these lengths. We also revisit the "no small virtual triangles" theorem of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Max Forester , Robert Tang , Jing Tao

We study the symmetries and geodesics of an infinite translation surface which arises as a limit of translation surfaces built from regular polygons, studied by Veech. We find the affine symmetry group of this infinite translation surface,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-09-04 W. Patrick Hooper

The goal of this note is to study the action of the backward Rauzy-Veech algorithm on the translation surfaces with horizontal saddle connections. In particular, we prove that the orbit of a translation surface via the aforementioned…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Przemysław Berk

We study infinite translation surfaces which are Z-covers of compact translation surfaces. We obtain conditions ensuring that such surfaces have Veech groups which are Fuchsian of the first kind and give a necessary and sufficient condition…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-05-25 W. Patrick Hooper , Barak Weiss

For each stratum of the space of translation surfaces, we introduce an infinite translation surface containing in an appropriate manner a copy of every translation surface of the stratum. Given a translation surface $(X, \omega)$ in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Brandon Edwards , Slade Sanderson , Thomas A. Schmidt

Translation surfaces with poles correspond to meromorphic differentials on compact Riemann surfaces. They appear in compactifications of strata of the moduli space of Abelian differentials and in the study of stability conditions. Such…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Guillaume Tahar

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

Dilation surfaces are generalizations of translation surfaces where the transition maps of the atlas are translations and homotheties with a positive ratio. In contrast with translation surfaces, the directional flow on dilation surfaces…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Guillaume Tahar

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
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