Square-tiled cyclic covers

Details Square-tiled cyclic covers Square-tiled cyclic covers

2010-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/1007.4275v2

Journal of Modern Dynamics, vol.5, n.2, 2011, 285--318

Mathematics

Dynamical Systems

34 pages, 6 figures. Final version incorporating referees comments. In particular, a gap in the previous version was corrected

Scientific paper

10.3934/jmd.2011.5.285

A cyclic cover of the complex projective line branched at four appropriate points has a natural structure of a square-tiled surface. We describe the combinatorics of such a square-tiled surface, the geometry of the corresponding Teichm\"uller curve, and compute the Lyapunov exponents of the determinant bundle over the Teichm\"uller curve with respect to the geodesic flow. This paper includes a new example (announced by G. Forni and C. Matheus in \cite{Forni:Matheus}) of a Teichm\"uller curve of a square-tiled cyclic cover in a stratum of Abelian differentials in genus four with a maximally degenerate Kontsevich--Zorich spectrum (the only known example found previously by Forni in genus three also corresponds to a square-tiled cyclic cover \cite{ForniSurvey}). We present several new examples of Teichm\"uller curves in strata of holomorphic and meromorphic quadratic differentials with maximally degenerate Kontsevich--Zorich spectrum. Presumably, these examples cover all possible Teichm\"uller curves with maximally degenerate spectrum. We prove that this is indeed the case within the class of square-tiled cyclic covers.

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