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48 results for horocycles

Defines horocyclic evolutes, parallels, and involutes of spacelike frontals in hyperbolic 2-space.

problem None explicitly stated; focuses on definitions and relations.
method Using enveloid theorem, defines horocyclic parallel and involute as normal envelopes of horocycles.
result Investigates relations among horocyclic evolutes, parallels, and involutes.

New surfaces with special geodesic and horocycle behaviors discovered.

problem Understanding geodesic and horocycle dynamics on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Constructing geometrically infinite hyperbolic surfaces with tailored recurrence properties.
result First examples of non-trivial minimal horocyclic orbit closures and infinite locally-finite conservative horocyclic invariant measures.

Non-ergodic measures found in horocycle flow on Abelian differentials.

problem Finding non-ergodic measures in the horocycle flow on Abelian differentials.
method Analyzing weak convergence of ergodic measures to non-ergodic invariant measures.
result Existence of points with non-equidistributing horocycle flow orbits.

A bijection preserving horocycles/hypercycles is an isometry in hyperbolic plane.

problem Understanding transformations of constant curvature curves in hyperbolic geometry.
method Analyzing bijections that map horocycles to horocycles and hypercycles to hypercycles.
result Every abstract automorphism of geodesic/horocycles/hypercycles graphs is induced by an earthquake map/isometry.

Study horocycle orbits in Z \mathbb{Z} -covers of hyperbolic surfaces.

problem Classify horocycle orbit closures in Z \mathbb{Z} -covers of compact hyperbolic surfaces.
method Careful analysis of distance minimizing geodesic rays in the cover.
result All non-maximal horocycle orbit closures have integer Hausdorff dimension.

Study geometric actions of groups on horocyclic products.

problem Understanding geometric actions of groups on horocyclic products.
method Analyzing geometric actions of groups on horocyclic products of CAT(-κ) spaces.
result Groups acting on horocyclic products are either ascending HNN extensions of finitely-generated virtually nilpotent groups or not finitely presented.

A support theorem for the horocycle Radon transform f \to \hat{f} is a property of the form \hat{f} of compact support \rightarrow f of compact support. Here we prove a variation of this result where support (\hat{f}) is outside a fixed horocycle in hyperbolic space.

2010-08-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Using zippered rectangle coordinates we parametrize a Poincaré section for horocycle flow on the space of genus 2 translation surfaces with one singular cone point of angle 6π. In addition, we bound the return time under horocycle flow to this Poincaré section by examining a subset of surfaces where a certain sum of …

2016-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Let MM be a closed oriented surface endowed with a Riemannian metric gg and let ΩΩ be a 2-form. We show that the magnetic flow of the pair (g,Ω)(g,Ω) has zero asymptotic Maslov index and zero Liouville action if and only gg has constant Gaussian curvature, ΩΩ is a constant multiple of the area form of gg and the mag…

2004-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Study CMC hypersurfaces in H2imesH2\mathbb{H}^2 imes\mathbb{H}^2 with a specific symmetry.

problem Constant mean curvature hypersurfaces with double horocyclic symmetry in H2imesH2\mathbb{H}^2 imes\mathbb{H}^2.
method Reduction to a single ODE, solving explicitly, classifying solutions.
result Existence and uniqueness of double horocyclic CMC hypersurfaces.

The horocyclic flow on geometrically infinite surfaces shows recurrent irregular orbits or non-minimal closures.

problem Complex dynamics of horocyclic flow on geometrically infinite surfaces.
method Analyzing the recurrence and minimality of irregular orbits.
result Irregular orbits are recurrent or have non-hRh_{\mathbb{R}} minimal closures.

We construct a Poincaré section for the horocycle flow on the modular surface SL(2,R)/SL(2,Z)SL(2, \R)/SL(2, \Z), and study the associated first return map, which coincides with a transformation (the {\it BCZ map}) defined by Boca-Cobeli-Zaharescu. We classify ergodic invariant measures for this map and prove equidistribution of pe…

2012-06-28abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we study the typical speed of a generic earthquake trajectory leaving compact sets in the moduli space of the once-punctured torus. Mirzakhani showed that the earthquake flow is measurably equivalent to the horocyclic flow, which has been studied extensively. Our main result shows that the earthquake flow…

2015-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows orbits on a specific surface without intersecting geodesics.

problem Understanding orbits on a specific surface without intersecting geodesics.
method Analyzing the horocyclic flow on the unit tangent bundle of an untwisted flute.
result Recurrent and irregular orbits do not intersect closed geodesics.

The study connects lamination and orbit closures in hyperbolic manifolds.

problem Understanding the geometric and dynamical properties of horocycle orbit closures in Z\mathbb{Z}-covers of compact hyperbolic manifolds.
method Exposes connections between distance minimizing laminations and horospherical orbit closures in Z\mathbb{Z}-covers of compact hyperbolic manifolds. Provides novel constructions and explicit descriptions.
result Even slight perturbations to hyperbolic metrics can drastically change horocycle orbit closures.

Introduces hyperbolic generalized framed surfaces and their properties.

problem None explicitly stated; focuses on introducing new geometric objects.
method Generalization of hyperbolic framed surfaces and curves.
result Established conditions for a surface to be a hyperbolic generalized framed base surface and explored their singularities.

Study saddle connections on hyperelliptic surfaces, finding growth rates.

problem Count saddle connections on hyperelliptic surfaces without interior intersections.
method Used horocycle renormalization to prove lower bound growth rate.
result Found saddle connections satisfy L(logL)d2L (\log L)^{d-2} growth rate.

In this thesis we consider a way to construct a rich family of compact Riemann Surfaces in a combinatorial way. Given a 3-regualr graph with orientation, we construct a finite-area hyperbolic Riemann surface by gluing triangles according to the combinatorics of the graph. We then compactify this surface by adding finit…

2002-02-17abs ↗pdf ↗

A hyperbolic polygon is defined to be cyclic, horocyclic, or equidistant if its vertices lie on a metric circle, horocycle, or a component of the equidistant locus to a hyperbolic geodesic, respectively. Convex such nn-gons are parametrized by the subspaces of (0,)n(0,\infty)^n that contain their side length collections,…

2011-01-25abs ↗pdf ↗

A cylindrical stretch line is a stretch line, in the sense of Thurston, whose horocyclic lamination is a weighted multicurve. In this paper, we show that two correctly parameterized cylindrical lines are parallel if and only if these lines converge towards the same point in Thurston's boundary of Teichmüller space.

2009-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

The abstract discusses vector fields on curved spaces and conservation laws.

problem Finding vector fields on curved spaces with specific properties.
method Proves existence of special vector fields on manifolds with constant negative curvature and derives conservation laws.
result Closed 1-forms can be used to derive conservation laws for certain PDEs.

Classifies actions on complex space forms with Lagrangian orbits.

problem Classifying actions on complex space forms with Lagrangian orbits.
method Classifies holomorphic isometric actions on complex space forms.
result Only examples are Lagrangian affine subspace foliations of complex Euclidean spaces and Lagrangian horocycle foliations of complex hyperbolic spaces.

The study defines and characterizes extrinsic catenaries in hyperbolic space.

problem Understanding catenaries in hyperbolic geometry.
method Defined extrinsic catenaries in hyperbolic plane, characterized them, and proved their relation to minimal surfaces.
result Extrinsic catenaries in hyperbolic space are critical points of a potential functional and generating curves of minimal surfaces.

Researchers compute gap distributions for saddle connection directions on specific translation surfaces.

problem Computing gap distributions for saddle connection directions on translation surfaces.
method Translation to dynamical question of return times to a transversal under the horocycle flow.
result Gap distributions have support at 0 and quadratic tail decay.

Convexity properties of Weil-Petersson geodesics on the Teichmüller space of punctured Riemann surfaces are investigated. A normal form is presented for the Weil-Petersson Levi-Civita connection for pinched hyperbolic metrics. The normal form is used to establish approximation of geodesics in boundary spaces. Considera…

2007-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate contact magnetic curves in the real special linear group of degree 2. They are geodesics of the Hopf tubes over the projection curve. We prove that periodic contact magnetic curves in SL(2,R) can be quantized in the set of rational numbers. Finally, we study contact homogeneous magnetic trajectories in S…

2018-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we study surfaces foliated by a uniparametric family of circles in the homogeneous space Sol3_3. We prove that there do not exist such surfaces with zero mean curvature or with zero Gaussian curvature. We extend this study considering surfaces foliated by geodesics, equidistant lines or horocycles in tot…

2014-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove that, among the polygons in a punctured disc with fixed angles, the perimeter is minimized by the polygon with an inscribed horocycle centered at the puncture. We generalize this to a disc with a cone point and to an annulus with a geodesic boundary component and a complete end. Then we apply this result to de…

2016-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We analyze the slope gap distribution of Veech surfaces, finding finite non-analytic points and quadratic tail decay.

problem Understanding the slope gap distribution of Veech surfaces.
method Explicit parameterization of a Poincaré section to the horocycle flow, finiteness result for the first return map.
result The limiting gap distribution of slopes of saddle connections on Veech surfaces is piecewise real-analytic with finitely many points of non-analyticity and has quadratic tail decay.

Infinite volume moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces are redefined with exponential forms.

problem Infinite volume of moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces with cusps.
method Introduce exponential volume form exp(-W)Vol(K,L) where W is a function of hyperbolic areas.
result Exponential volume forms make moduli spaces finite and relevant to open string theory.

In this paper we give a complete description of the space $ \QF $ of quasifuchsian punctured torus groups in terms of what we call {\em pleating invariants}. These are natural invariants of the boundary $\bch$ of the convex core of the associated hyperbolic 3-manifold MM and give coordinates for the non-Fuchsian group…

2002-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗