(1) Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA;(2) Department of Mathematics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Be’er Sheva, Israel
Abstract:
LetS be a compact orientable surface, letQ be the moduli space of quadratic differentials onS and letM be a stratum inQ. We explicitly describe the minimal sets for the (Teichmüller) horocycle flow onM and onQ, and show that these correspond to horizontal cylindrical decompositions ofS.