Fixed points of compositions of earthquakes
Abstract
Let S be a closed surface of genus at least 2, and consider two measured geodesic laminations that fill S. Right earthquakes along these laminations are diffeomorphisms of the Teichm\"uller space of S. We prove that the composition of these earthquakes has a fixed point in the Teichm\"uller space. Another way to state this result is that it is possible to prescribe any two measured laminations that fill a surface as the upper and lower measured bending laminations of the convex core of a globally hyperbolic AdS manifold. The proof uses some estimates from the geometry of those AdS manifolds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.3471,
title = {Fixed points of compositions of earthquakes},
author = {Francesco Bonsante and Jean-Marc Schlenker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.3471},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
19 pages, 1 figure. v2: 21 pages, 3 figures. v2 is a substantial rewrite, with simpler proofs and better explanations, some corrections. v3: further improvements in the exposition