An affine model of a Riemann surface associated to a Schwarz-Christoffel mapping

Abstract

In this paper we construct an affine model of a Riemann surface with a flat Riemannian metric associated to a Schwarz-Christoffel mapping of the upper half plane onto a rational triangle. We explain the relation between the geodesics on this Riemann surface and billiard motions in a regular stellated $n$-gon in the complex plane.