Arithmetic-dynamic simplicity dichotomy for geodesics
Consider a lattice with invariant trace field . Let , with mapping class group . Fix a simple geodesic , let be its lift, viewed as an -invariant set of geodesics, and let be the set of their endpoints. Arithmetic-dynamic simplicity conjecture. The following dichotomy holds: if is fixed by an element of infinite order in , then the endpoints in are algebraic over ; if is not fixed by any element of infinite order in , then the endpoints in are transcendental over . In the first case, the relevant algebraic extension is further determined by the type of infinite-order mapping class: for a maximal product of commuting Dehn twists, the lifted geodesics are bi-asymptotic to simple closed geodesics and their endpoints lie in a quadratic extension of ; for a pseudo-Anosov element , the endpoints are expected to belong to for a Lyapunov exponent given by a root of the Teichmüller polynomial of . This proposes an arithmetic/transcendence dichotomy for simple geodesics, relating the algebraicity of their endpoints to dynamical symmetries of the surface. The general status is not supplied in the source.
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Scott Schmieding and Christopher-Lloyd Simon, “Geometry and Transcendence of the Hexponential”, arXiv:2402.17628 (2024).
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