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An Effective Slope Gap Distribution for Lattice Surfaces

Dynamical Systems 2024-09-25 v1 Geometric Topology Number Theory

Abstract

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. As an intermediate step, we prove an effective equidistribution result for the intersection points of long horocycles with a particular transversal of the horocycle flow in SL2(R)/Γ\mathrm{SL}_2 (\mathbb R)/\Gamma where Γ\Gamma is a lattice.

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@article{arxiv.2409.15660,
  title  = {An Effective Slope Gap Distribution for Lattice Surfaces},
  author = {Tariq Osman and Joshua Southerland and Jane Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.15660},
  year   = {2024}
}

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37 pages, 3 figures

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