{ "id": "1710.11234", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-10-30T20:48:39.000Z", "updated": "2017-10-30T20:48:39.000Z", "title": "Periods of abelian differentials and dynamics", "authors": [ "Michael Kapovich" ], "comment": "A copy of my 2000 preprint", "categories": [ "math.DS", "math.CV" ], "abstract": "Given a closed oriented surface S we describe those cohomology classes which appear as the period characters of abelian differentials for some choice of complex structure on S consistent with the orientation. The proof is based upon Ratner's solution of Raghunathan's conjecture.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-10-30T20:48:39.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "abelian differentials", "cohomology classes", "period characters", "complex structure", "ratners solution" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }