Orbifold Riemann surfaces and geodesic algebras

Abstract

We study the Teichmüller theory of Riemann surfaces with orbifold points of order 2 using the fat graph technique. The previously developed technique of quantization, classical and quantum mapping-class group transformations, and Poisson and quantum algebras of geodesic functions is applicable to the surfaces with orbifold points. We describe classical and quantum braid group relations for particular sets of geodesic functions corresponding to An and Dn algebras and describe their central elements for the Poisson and quantum algebras.