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1 Geometry of Flat Surfaces Marcelo iana IMPA - Rio de Janeiro Xi an Jiaotong University 2005 Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.1/43
2 Some (non-flat) surfaces Sphere (g = 0) Torus (g = 1) Bitorus (g = 2) Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.2/43
3 One flat "sphere": the cube Flat surface: the sum of the internal angles of any triangle on the surface is equal to 180 degrees. Any triangle?... Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.3/43
4 What about the edges? Every edge can be "flattened" without deforming the surface: The geodesics ("shortest paths") correspond to straight line segments after flattening. The sum of the internal angles of a triangle is 180 degrees. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.4/43
5 What about the vertices? Define ang( ) = sum of the angles of the faces of the surface adjacent to a given vertex. In the case of the cube ang( ) = 3π/2. Whenever ang( ) 2π, the vertex can not be flattened" without deforming or tearing the surface. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.5/43
6 Triangles on a vertex top side α γ β front Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.6/43
7 Triangles on a vertex top side α β γ front Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.7/43
8 Triangles on a vertex top side α γ β front Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.8/43
9 Sum of the internal angles top side α γ β front The sum of the internal angles of this hexagon is α + β + γ + ang( ) + π = 4π, so the sum of the angles of the triangle on the cube is α + β + γ = 3π ang( ) = 3π/2. General rule? Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.9/43
10 Theorem of Gauss-Bonnet On a smooth surface the integral of the Gaussian curvature is equal to 2πX, where X = 2 2g is the Euler characteristic of the surface. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.10/43
11 Theorem of Gauss-Bonnet On a smooth surface the integral of the Gaussian curvature is equal to 2πX, where X = 2 2g is the Euler characteristic of the surface. ersion for flat surfaces: The sum N i=1 ( 2π ang(i ) ) is equal to 2πX, where 1,..., N are the vertices of the surface. Flat surface: the sum of the internal angles of any triangle is equal to 180 degrees, except at a finite number of points, the vertices, where is concentrated all the curvature of the surface. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.10/43
12 Geodesic walks We consider "straight lines" (geodesics) in a given direction, from different points on the surface. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.11/43
13 Geodesic walks We consider "straight lines" (geodesics) in a given direction, from different points on the surface. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.12/43
14 Geodesic walks We want to understand the behavior of these geodesics, the way they "wrap" around the surface: When are the geodesics closed curves? When are they dense on the surface? What is their quantitative behavior? Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.13/43
15 Motivation The geodesic flow on flat surfaces is related to: Interval exchange transformations Dinamics of measured foliations Lyapunov exponents of linear cocycles Teichmüller spaces and flows Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces Quadratic differentials Continued fraction expansions Billiards on polygonal tables Renormalization operators... Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.14/43
16 Geodesic walks At first sight, the behavior does not depend much on the initial points: geodesics starting in the same direction remain parallel. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.15/43
17 Geodesic walks At first sight, the behavior does not depend much on the initial points: geodesics starting in the same direction remain parallel. But the presence of the vertices may render the situation much more complicated. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.16/43
18 The flat torus One single vertex, with ang( ) = 2π. The flat torus does not embed in R 3. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.17/43
19 Geodesic walks on the torus H Geodesics in a given direction remain parallel. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.18/43
20 Geodesic walks on the torus h 2 (l)= 2 h 1 (l)= 4 Their behavior may be described using the vector 1 (v 1,v 2 ) = lim l l (h 1(l),h 2 (l)), where h 1 (l), h 2 (l) = number of turns" of a geodesic segment of length l makes around the torus, in the horizontal and the vertical direction. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.19/43
21 Geodesic walks on the torus h 2 (l) Theorem. h 1 (l) 1. If v 1 /v 2 is rational then every geodesic is closed. 2. If v 1 /v 2 is irrational then every geodesic is dense and even uniformly distributed (the flow is uniquely ergodic). Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.20/43
22 A more general construction Let us consider any planar polygon bounded by an even number of pairs of (non-adjacent) line segments which are parallel and have the same length. Identifying the segments in each pair we get a flat surface. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.21/43
23 An example Let us consider the regular octagon: Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.22/43
24 An example Let us consider the regular octagon: Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.23/43
25 An example Let us consider the regular octagon: Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.24/43
26 An example Let us consider the regular octagon: Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.25/43
27 An example Let us consider the regular octagon: Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.26/43
28 An example Let us consider the regular octagon: The surface has a unique vertex, with ang( ) = 6π. How can the angle be bigger than 2π? Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.27/43
29 An example Let us consider the regular octagon: The surface has a unique vertex, with ang( ) = 6π. How can the angle be bigger than 2π? So, by Gauss-Bonnet, it has genus g = 2: flat bitorus. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.27/43
30 Translation surfaces The flat surfaces obtained from planar polygons have some additional structure: a globally defined "compass". S E O N? N N N N N a N Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.28/43
31 Translation surfaces The flat surfaces obtained from planar polygons have some additional structure: a globally defined "compass". S E O N? S S S That is not the case of the cube: S S S Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.29/43
32 Translation flows Just as we did for the torus, let us consider geodesics with a given direction starting from points on the surface. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.30/43
33 Translation flows h 1 = 3 h 2 = 5 h 3 = 4 h 4 = To each geodesic segment of length l we can associate an integer vector H(l) = (h 1 (l),...,h d (l)) where h i (l) = number of turns" in the direction of the i th side of the polygon. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.31/43
34 Asymptotic cycles S. Schwartzmann (1957): the asymptotic cycle of a pair (surface, direction) is the limit 1 c 1 = lim l l H(l) This vector c 1 R d describes the average number of turns" of geodesics around the various sides of the polygon, per unit of length. Theorem (Kerckhoff, Masur, Smillie 1986). For any translation surface and almost any direction, the geodesic flow is uniquely ergodic. In particular, the asymptotic cycle exists and every geodesic is dense. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.32/43
35 Deviations from the limit Numerical experiments by Anton Zorich suggest that the differences H(l) lc 1 are distributed along some direction c 2 R d c 2 l ν 2 and their order of magnitude is l ν 2 for some ν 2 < 1. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.33/43
36 Deviations from the limit Refining these experiments, he observed that second order deviations H(l) lc 1 l ν 2 c 2 are also distributed along some direction c 3 R d and their order of magnitude is l ν 3 for some ν 3 < ν 2. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.34/43
37 Deviations from the limit Refining these experiments, he observed that second order deviations H(l) lc 1 l ν 2 c 2 are also distributed along some direction c 3 R d and their order of magnitude is l ν 3 for some ν 3 < ν 2. The same type of behavior is observed for higher order deviations: Conjecture (Zorich-Kontsevich 1995). There exist c 1, c 2,..., c g in R d and numbers 1 > ν 2 > > ν g > 0 such that H(l) = c 1 l + c 2 l ν 2 + c 3 l ν c g l ν g + R(l) where R(l) is a bounded function. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.34/43
38 Zorich Kontsevich conjecture Kontsevich, Zorich gave a dynamical interpretation of the vectors c i and the numbers ν i (Lyapunov exponents). The main point was to prove Conjecture (Zorich, Kontsevich). 1 > ν 2 > > ν g > 0 Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.35/43
39 Zorich Kontsevich conjecture Kontsevich, Zorich gave a dynamical interpretation of the vectors c i and the numbers ν i (Lyapunov exponents). The main point was to prove Conjecture (Zorich, Kontsevich). 1 > ν 2 > > ν g > 0 Theorem (eech 1984). ν 2 < 1. Theorem (Forni 2002). ν g > 0. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.35/43
40 Zorich Kontsevich conjecture Kontsevich, Zorich gave a dynamical interpretation of the vectors c i and the numbers ν i (Lyapunov exponents). The main point was to prove Conjecture (Zorich, Kontsevich). 1 > ν 2 > > ν g > 0 Theorem (eech 1984). ν 2 < 1. Theorem (Forni 2002). ν g > 0. Theorem (Avila, iana 2004). The ZK conjecture is true. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.35/43
41 The End That s not all, folks! Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.36/43
42 Let 2d be the number of sides of the polygon. Apparently, for d = 2 we have ν 2 = 0 for d = 3 we have ν 2 = 0 for d = 4 we have ν 2 = 1/3 for d = 5 we have ν 2 = 1/2 (all rational...) Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.37/43
43 Let 2d be the number of sides of the polygon. Apparently, for d = 2 we have ν 2 = 0 for d = 3 we have ν 2 = 0 for d = 4 we have ν 2 = 1/3 for d = 5 we have ν 2 = 1/2 (all rational...) for d = 6 we have ν 2 = 0, or 0, (probably irrational...) Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.37/43
44 Let 2d be the number of sides of the polygon. Apparently, for d = 2 we have ν 2 = 0 for d = 3 we have ν 2 = 0 for d = 4 we have ν 2 = 1/3 for d = 5 we have ν 2 = 1/2 (all rational...) for d = 6 we have ν 2 = 0, or 0, (probably irrational...) Conjecture (Kontsevich-Zorich). The sum ν 1 + ν ν g is a rational number for all g 3. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.37/43
45 Billiards Billiards model the motion of point particles inside bounded regions in the plane, with constant speed and elastic reflections on the boundary: Let us focus on polygonal table billiards, that are more directly related to geodesics flows on flat surfaces. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.38/43
46 Flat spheres Gluing two identical triangles along their boundaries we obtain a flat sphere with 3 vertices: Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.39/43
47 Triangular tables Billiard in a triangular table geodesic flow on a flat sphere with three vertices. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.40/43
48 Triangular tables Billiard in a triangular table geodesic flow on a flat sphere with three vertices. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.41/43
49 An open problem Billiard in a triangular table geodesic flow on a flat sphere with three vertices. Does every flat sphere with three vertices have some closed geodesic? Does every billiard on a triangular table have some closed trajectory? When the angles are 90 degrees, the answer is Yes. Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.42/43
50 Smooth spheres For smooth spheres with positive curvature there always exist at least 3 closed geodesics: Geometry of Flat Surfaces p.43/43
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