Let Y be a Riemann surface with compact boundary embedded into a hyperbolic Riemann surface of finite type X. It is proved that the space of deformations D of Y into X is an open subset of the Teichmüller space T(X) of X. Furthermore, D has compact closure if and only if Y is simply connected or isomorphic to a punctured disk, and D= T(X) if and only if the components of X Y are all disks or punctured disks.
We show that the dimer model on a bipartite graph on a torus gives rise to a quantum integrable system of special type, which we call acluster integrable system. The phase space of the classical system contains, as an open dense subset, the moduli space of line bundles with connections on the graph . The sum of Hamiltonians is essentially the partition function of the dimer model. We say that two such graphs and areequivalentif the Newton polygons of the corresponding partition functions...
We show that Y. Cheung’s general -continued fractions can be adapted to give approximation by saddle connection vectors for any compact translation surface. That is, we show the finiteness of his Minkowski constant for any compact translation surface. Furthermore, we show that for a Veech surface in standard form, each component of any saddle connection vector dominates its conjugates in an appropriate sense. The saddle connection continued fractions then allow one to recognize certain transcendental...