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For each stratum of the space of translation surfaces, we show that there is an infinite area translation surface which contains in an appropriate manner a copy of every translation surface of the stratum. Given a translation surface \((X, \omega )\) in the stratum, a matrix is in its Veech group \(\mathrm {SL}(X,\omega )\) if and only if an associated affine automorphism of the infinite surface sending each of a finite set, the “marked” Voronoi staples, arising from orientation-paired segments appropriately perpendicular to Voronoi 1-cells, to another pair of orientation-paired “marked” segments. We prove a result of independent interest. For each real \(a\ge \sqrt{2}\) there is an explicit hyperbolic ball such that for any Fuchsian group trivially stabilizing i, the Dirichlet domain centered at i of the group already agrees within the ball with the intersection of the hyperbolic half-planes determined by the group elements whose Frobenius norm is at most a. Together, these results give rise to a new algorithm for computing Veech groups.
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Edwards, B., Sanderson, S. & Schmidt, T.A. Canonical translation surfaces for computing Veech groups. Geom Dedicata 216, 60 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-022-00723-5
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