McShane's identity, using elliptic elements
Metric Geometry
2008-02-22 v1
Abstract
We introduce a new method to establish McShane's Identity, based upon the fact that elliptic elements of order two in the Fuchsian group uniformizing the quotient of a fixed once-punctured hyperbolic torus act so as to exclude points as being highest points of geodesics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0802.3096,
title = {McShane's identity, using elliptic elements},
author = {Thomas A. Schmidt and Mark Sheingorn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3096},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
15 pages, 6 figures