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Horocycle flow orbits and lattice surface characterizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2017

JON CHAIKA  and
KATHRYN LINDSEY
JON CHAIKA
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA email chaika@math.utah.edu
KATHRYN LINDSEY
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA email klindsey@math.uchicago.edu
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Abstract

The orbit closure of any translation surface under the horocycle flow in almost any direction equals its $\text{SL}_{2}(\mathbb{R})$ orbit closure. This result gives rise to new characterizations of lattice surfaces in terms of the horocycle flow.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 39 , Issue 6 , June 2019 , pp. 1441 - 1461
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© Cambridge University Press, 2017 

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