Topology Proceedings GEODESIC CURVES ON SHIMURA SURFACES
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A Shimura surface is the quotient of either the product H×H of two hyperbolic planes or the unit ball HC in C by an irreducible arithmetic lattice. Examples include the normal quasiprojective varieties associated with the Hilbert and Picard modular groups, along with the solutions to many moduli problems for principally polarized abelian varieties. Special amongst the immersed projective algebraic curves on these surfaces are those which are geodesic for the metric descending from the universal covering. In this paper, we completely classify the geodesic curves on Shimura surfaces up to commensurability. A consequence of this classification is the following.
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Geodesic curves on Shimura surfaces
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