Publications and preprints




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Most of my publications are also available on aXiV with a short abstract .


photo Teichmueller curves generated by Weierstrass Prym eigenforms in genus three and genus four,
   (with D.-M. Nguyen),
    preprint submitted (2011), 51 pages | pdf.

photo Pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms on translation surfaces in hyperelliptic components have large entropy,
   (with C. Boissy),
    accepted in GAFA (2011), 29 pages |  pdf.

photo Enumerating Pseudo-Anosov Diffeomorphisms of Punctured Discs,
   (with J.-L. Thiffeault),
   preprint, 35 pages, coming very soon! (2010).

photo On the minimum dilatation of braids on the punctured disc,
   (with J.-L. Thiffeault),
   accepted in Geometriae Dedicata (2010), 18 pages | pdf.

photo Infinite sequences of fixed point free pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms on genus two surface,
    Contemporary Mathematics, to appear (2010), 12 pages | pdf.

photo On the minimum dilatation of pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms on surfaces of small genera,
   (with J.-L. Thiffeault),
    Annales de l'Institut Fourier, volume 60, (2010), 26 pages |  pdf.

photo The Cat's Cradle, Stirring,
   (with J.-L. Thiffeault and S. Matz),
   To appear in Dynamical Systems Magazine (April 2009), 7 pages |  pdf.

photo GL(2,R)-orbit closures via topological splittings,
   (with Pascal Hubert and Martin Möller),
   To appear in volume 14 of Surveys in Differential Geometry (2010), pp 145-169 pages |  pdfps.

photo Dynamics and geometry of the Rauzy-Veech induction for quadratic differentials,
   (with Corentin Boissy),
   To appear in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (2008), 50 pages |  pdfps.

photo Completely periodic directions and orbit closures of many pseudo-Anosov Teichmueller discs in Q(1,1,1,1),
   (with Pascal Hubert and Martin Möller),
   accepted in Mathematische Annalen (2010), 38 pages |  pdfps.

photo Un théorème de Kerckhoff, Masur et Smillie : Unique ergodicité sur les surfaces plates,
   (with Sébastien Gouëzel),
    Séminaires et Congrès (2008) 19, Société Mathématique de France, Paris, 28 pages |  pdfps.

photo The Arnoux-Yoccoz Teichmüller disc,
   (with Pascal Hubert and Martin Möller),
   To appear in Geometric and Functional Analysis (2008), 25 pages |  pdfps.

photo Connected components of the strata of the moduli spaces of quadratic differentials,
    Annales Scientifiques de l'ENS (2008) 41, 56 pages |  pdfps.

photo Veech groups without parabolic elements,
   (with Pascal Hubert),
   Duke Mathematical Journal (2006) 133, 7 pages |  pdfps.

photo Parity of the spin structure defined by a quadratic differential,
    Geometry & Topology (2004) 8, 28 pages |  pdfps.

photo Hyperelliptic components of the moduli spaces of quadratic differentials with prescribed singularities,
    Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (2004) 79, 23 pages |  pdfps.


Habilitation thesis (University of Sud-Toulon-Var):
``Promenade dynamique et combinatoire dans les espaces de Teichmüller''   pdf
(defended on June 28, 2010).
Thesis (University of Rennes):
``Classification of connected components of the strata of the moduli spaces of quadratic differentials''
(defended on December 5, 2003).
Advisor: Anton Zorich

Preprints and works in progress



photo Stratification of the space of train-tracks,
   (with Jérôme Los),
   preprint (2007), 15 pages.

photo Some experiments on Pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms on genus 3 surfaces,
   preprint (2008), 7 pages.