Generalized staircases: Recurrence and symmetry

W. Patrick Hooper; Barak Weiss

doi:10.5802/aif.2730

Generalized staircases: Recurrence and symmetry

W. Patrick Hooper, Barak Weiss

Department of Mathematics

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Abstract

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 for recurrence of their straight-line flows. Extending results of Hubert and Schmithüsen, we provide examples of infinite non-arithmetic lattice surfaces, as well as surfaces with infinitely generated Veech groups.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1581-1600
Number of pages	20
Journal	Annales de l'Institut Fourier
Volume	62
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5802/aif.2730
State	Published - 12 Oct 2012

Keywords

Infinite translation surfaces
Lattices
Straightline flow
Veech groups

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Algebra and Number Theory
Geometry and Topology

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Generalized staircases: Recurrence and symmetry

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