Characterizations of lattice surfaces

John Smillie, Barak Weiss*

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Abstract

We answer a question of Vorobets by showing that the lattice property for flat surfaces is equivalent to the existence of a positive lower bound for the areas of affine triangles. We show that the set of affine equivalence classes of lattice surfaces with a fixed positive lower bound for the areas of triangles is finite and we obtain explicit bounds on its cardinality. We deduce several other characterizations of the lattice property.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)535-557
Number of pages23
JournalInventiones Mathematicae
Volume180
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2010
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences0302357

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