Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates on upper bounded pants decompositions
Abstract
Let be an infinite genus hyperbolic surface (whose boundary components, if any, are closed geodesics or punctures) which has an upper bounded pants decomposition. The length spectrum Teichm\"uller space consists of all surfaces homeomorphic to such that the ratios of the corresponding simple closed geodesics are uniformly bounded from below and from above. Alessandrini, Liu, Papadopoulos and Su described the Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates for and using these coordinates they proved that is path connected. We use the Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates for to induce a locally biLipschitz homeomorphism between and (which extends analogous results by Fletcher and by Allessandrini, Liu, Papadopoulos, Su and Sun for the unreduced and the reduced ). Consequently, is contractible. We also characterize the closure in the length spectrum metric of the quasiconformal Teichm\"uller space in .
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@article{arxiv.1209.5819,
title = {Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates on upper bounded pants decompositions},
author = {Dragomir Šarić},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.5819},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
proof in Step III, Theorem 2.1 simplified, statements unchanged