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Grothendieck's Reconstruction Principle and 2-dimensional Topology and Geometry

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry Differential Geometry

Abstract

This paper attempts to relate some ideas of Grothendieck in his Esquisse d'un programme and some of the recent results on 2-dimensional topology and geometry. Especially, we shall discuss the Teichm\"uller theory, the mapping class groups, SL(2,C)SL(2, \bold C) representation variety of surface groups, and Thurston's theory of measured laminations.

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@article{arxiv.math/9904019,
  title  = {Grothendieck's Reconstruction Principle and 2-dimensional Topology and Geometry},
  author = {Feng Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9904019},
  year   = {2007}
}

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27 pages, 11 figures. Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, to appear