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Abstract

On a Riemann surface, periods of a meromorphic differential along closed loops define a period character from the absolute homology group into the additive group of complex numbers. Fixing the period character in strata of meromorphic differentials defines the isoperiodic foliation where the remaining degrees of freedom are the relative periods between the zeroes of the differential. In strata of meromorphic differentials with exactly two zeroes, leaves have a natural structure of translation surface. In this paper, we give a complete description of the isoperiodic leaves in marked stratum H(1,1,−2) of meromorphic 1-forms with two simple zeroes and a pole of order two on an elliptic curve. For each character, the corresponding leaf is a connected Loch Ness Monster. The translation structures of generic leaves feature a ramified cover of infinite degree over the flat torus defined by the lattice of absolute periods. By comparison, isoperiodic leaves of the unmarked stratum are complex disks endowed with a half-translation structure having infinitely many singular points. Finally, we give a description of the large-scale conformal geometry of the wall-and-chamber decomposition of the leaves.