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Masur's divergence states that the horizontal foliation of translation surfaces is uniquely ergodic if the geodesic flow is recurrent on the moduli space. This established a relationship between geometrical properties of foliations and the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Zhijing Wang

A complete treatment of the intersections of two geodesics on the surface of an ellipsoid of revolution is given. With a suitable metric for the distances between intersections, bounds are placed on their spacing. This leads to fast and…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Charles F. F. Karney

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

In this paper we continue to investigate the systolic landscape of translation surfaces started in [CHMW]. We show that there is an infinite sequence of surfaces $(S_{g_k})_k$ of genus $g_k$, where $g_k \to \infty$ with large systoles. On…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Peter Buser , Eran Makover , Bjoern Muetzel

We study geodesics on the Necker cube surface, $\mathbf N$, an infinite periodic Euclidean cone surface that is homeomorphic to the plane and is tiled by squares meeting three or six to a vertex. We ask: When does a geodesic on the surface…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-06 W. Patrick Hooper , Pavel Javornik

We show that Masur's logarithmic law of geodesics in the moduli space of translation surfaces does not imply unique ergodicity of the translation flow, but that a similar law involving the flat systole of a Teichm\"{u}ller geodesic does…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Jon Chaika , Rodrigo Treviño

This note is about a type of quantitative density of closed geodesics on closed hyperbolic surfaces. The main results are upper bounds on the length of the shortest closed geodesic that $\varepsilon$-fills the surface.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Ara Basmajian , Hugo Parlier , Juan Souto

A translation surface in the three-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^3$ is a surface generated by the quaternionic product of two curves, called generating curves. In this paper, we present rigidity results for such surfaces. We introduce an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Tarcios Andrey Ferreira , João Paulo dos Santos

We expand the cross section of the geodesic flow in the tangent bundle of the modular surface given by Series to produce another section whose return map under the geodesic flow is a double cover of the natural extension of the Farey map.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Byron Heersink

Our main point of focus is the set of closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. For any fixed integer $k$, we are interested in the set of all closed geodesics with at least $k$ (but possibly more) self-intersections. Among these, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Viveka Erlandsson , Hugo Parlier

The purpose of this paper is to give, on one hand, a mathematical exposition of the main topological and geometrical properties of geometric transitions, on the other hand, a quick outline of their principal applications, both in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Michele Rossi

Dynamical systems on an infinite translation surface with the lattice property are studied. The geodesic flow on this surface is found to be recurrent in all but countably many rational directions. Hyperbolic elements of the affine…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-02-04 W. Patrick Hooper

The two-dimensional surface of a bi-axial ellipsoid is characterized by the lengths of its major and minor axes. Longitude and latitude span an angular coordinate system across. We consider the egg-shaped surface of constant altitude above…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Richard J. Mathar

In our recent paper, we studied periodic billiard trajectories in the regular pentagon and closed geodesic on the double pentagon, a translation surface of genus two. In particular, we made a number of conjectures concerning symbolic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Dmitry Fuchs , Serge Tabachnikov

We study properties of typical closed geodesics on expander surfaces of high genus, i.e. closed hyperbolic surfaces with a uniform spectral gap of the Laplacian. Under an additional systole lower bound assumption, we show almost every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Benjamin Dozier , Jenya Sapir

The algebraic translational surface is a typical modeling surface in computer aided design and architecture industry. In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for that algebraic surface having a standard parametric…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Sonia Perez-Diaz , Liyong Shen

Let X be a complete hyperbolic surface of finite area. We establish that the intersection points of closed geodesics with length <T are equidistributed on X as T goes to infinity.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Tina Torkaman

This paper is about a type of quantitative density of closed geodesics and orthogeodesics on complete finite-area hyperbolic surfaces. The main results are upper bounds on the length of the shortest closed geodesic and the shortest doubly…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Nhat Minh Doan

We prove an upper bound for geodesic periods of Maass forms over hyperbolic manifolds. By definition, such periods are integrals of Maass forms restricted to a special geodesic cycle of the ambient manifold, against a Maass form on the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Feng Su

We study the geodesics on an invariant surface of a three dimensional Riemannian manifold. The main results are: the characterization of geodesic orbits; a Clairaut's relation and its geometric interpretation in some remarkable three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-03 Stefano Montaldo , Irene I. Onnis