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Veech groups for Origami-Teichmüller curves in specific strata of low genus

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Speaker: 
Gabriela Weitze-Schmithüsen
Zugehörigkeit: 
KIT
Datum: 
Don, 04/12/2014 - 16:30 - 17:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Teichmüller curves are algebraic curves in moduli space which are images
of Teichmüller disks, i.e. of isometrically and holomorphically embedded
Poincaré disks in Teichmüller space. A particularly handy class of
Teichmüller curves comes from so-called origamis (or square-tiled
surfaces). One starts with finitely many copies of the unit square in
the Euclidean plane and glues them along their boundary according to a
few combinatorial rules, such that one obtains a surface which is
endowed with a holomorphic differential or equivalently with a
translation structure. Teichmüller curves are up to birationality
determined by an associated discrete subgroup of SL(2,R) called the
Veech group. For origamis this is a subgroup of SL(2,Z) of finite index.
We study
for origamis in strata of low genus how far they are away from being
congruence groups.
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