Extremal parameters and their duals for Fuchsian boundary maps

Abstract: We describe arithmetic cross-sections for geodesic flow on compact surfaces of constant negative curvature using generalized Bowen-Series boundary maps and their natural extensions associated to cocompact torsion-free Fuchsian groups. If the boundary map parameters are extremal, that is, each is an endpoint of a geodesic that extends a side of the fundamental polygon, then the natural extension map has a domain with finite rectangular structure, and the associated arithmetic cross-section is parametrized by this set. This construction allows us to represent the geodesic flow as a special flow over a symbolic system of coding sequences. Moreover, each extremal parameter has a corresponding dual parameter choice such that the "past" of the arithmetic code of a geodesic is the "future" for the code using the dual parameter. This duality was observed for two classical parameter choices by Adler and Flatto; here we show constructively that every extremal parameter set has a dual.