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Almost-isometry between Teichm\"{u}ller metric and length-spectra metric on moduli space

Geometric Topology 2010-12-10 v1

Abstract

We prove an analogue of Farb-Masur's theorem that the length-spectra metric on moduli space is "almost isometric" to a simple model V(S)\mathcal {V}(S) which is induced by the cone metric over the complex of curves. As an application, we know that the Teichm\"{u}ller metric and the length-spectra metric are "almost isometric" on moduli space, while they are not even quasi-isometric on Teichm\"{u}ller space.

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@article{arxiv.1012.1921,
  title  = {Almost-isometry between Teichm\"{u}ller metric and length-spectra metric on moduli space},
  author = {Lixin Liu and Weixu Su},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.1921},
  year   = {2010}
}