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An infinite family of non-cyclic 1-cylinder pillowcase-tiled surfaces

arXiv:2510.18255 · doi:10.1007/s10711-026-01091-0

Abstract

Apisa-Wright conjectured that all branched covers of quadratic differentials in with at most one cylinder in each direction are cyclic covers. We provide infinitely many counterexamples to this conjecture.

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