A geometric characterization of orientation reversing involutions

Details A geometric characterization of orientation reversing involutions A geometric characterization of orientation reversing involutions

2005-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/math/0506477v1

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Differential Geometry

14 pages, 10 figures

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We give a geometric characterization of compact Riemann surfaces admitting orientation reversing involutions with fixed points. Such surfaces are generally called real surfaces and can be represented by real algebraic curves with non-empty real part. We show that there is a family of disjoint simple closed geodesics that intersect all geodesics of a partition at least twice in uniquely right angles if and only if the involution exists. This implies that a surface is real if and only if there is a pants decomposition of the surface with all Fenchel-Nielsen twist parameters equal to 0 or 1/2.

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