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Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates on upper bounded pants decompositions

Geometric Topology 2012-11-19 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Let X0X_0 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 Tls(X0)T_{ls}(X_0) consists of all surfaces XX homeomorphic to X0X_0 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 Tls(X0)T_{ls}(X_0) and using these coordinates they proved that Tls(X0)T_{ls}(X_0) is path connected. We use the Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates for Tls(X0)T_{ls}(X_0) to induce a locally biLipschitz homeomorphism between ll^{\infty} and Tls(X0)T_{ls}(X_0) (which extends analogous results by Fletcher and by Allessandrini, Liu, Papadopoulos, Su and Sun for the unreduced and the reduced Tqc(X0)T_{qc}(X_0)). Consequently, Tls(X0)T_{ls}(X_0) is contractible. We also characterize the closure in the length spectrum metric of the quasiconformal Teichm\"uller space Tqc(X0)T_{qc}(X_0) in Tls(X0)T_{ls}(X_0).

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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

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