Closed geodesics, periods and arithmetic of modular forms.
It is a natural question what is the set of minimal periods of a holomorphic maps on a Riemann surface of negative Euler characteristic. Sierakowski studied ordinary holomorphic periods on classical Riemann surfaces. Here we study orientation reversing automorphisms acting on classical Riemann surfaces, and also automorphisms of non-orientable unbordered Klein surfaces to which, following Singerman, we shall refer to as non-orientable Riemann surfaces. We get a complete set of conditions for the...
In two fundamental classical papers, Masur [14] and Veech [21] have independently proved that the Teichmüller geodesic flow acts ergodically on each connected component of each stratum of the moduli space of quadratic differentials. It is therefore interesting to have a classification of the ergodic components. Veech has proved that these strata are not necessarily connected. In a recent work [8], Kontsevich and Zorich have completely classified the components in the particular case where the quadratic...