Deforming hyperbolic hexagons with applications to the arc and the Thurston metrics on Teichm{\"u}ller spaces
Geometric Topology
2017-01-25 v3
Abstract
For each right-angled hexagon in the hyperbolic plane, we construct a one-parameter family of right-angled hexagons with a Lipschitz map between any two elements in this family, realizing the smallest Lipschitz constant in the homotopy class of this map relative to the boundary. As a consequence of this construction, we exhibit new geodesics for the arc metric on the Teichm{\"u}ller space of an arbitrary surface of negative Euler characteristic with nonempty boundary. We also obtain new geodesics for Thurston's metric on Teichm{\"u}ller spaces of hyperbolic surfaces without boundary.
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@article{arxiv.1512.02776,
title = {Deforming hyperbolic hexagons with applications to the arc and the Thurston metrics on Teichm{\"u}ller spaces},
author = {Athanase Papadopoulos and Sumio Yamada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02776},
year = {2017}
}