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Parabolic isometries of visible CAT(0) spaces and metrics on moduli space

Geometric Topology 2013-02-08 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We show that the translation length of any parabolic isometry on a complete semi-uniformly visible CAT(0) space is always zero. As a consequence, we will classify the isometries on visible CAT(0) spaces in terms of translation lengths. We will also show that the moduli space M(Sg,n)\mathbb{M}(S_{g,n}) of surface Sg,nS_{g,n} of gg genus with nn punctures admits no complete visible CAT(0) Riemannian metric if 3g+n53g+n\geq 5, which answers the Brock-Farb-McMullen question in the visible case.

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@article{arxiv.1302.1618,
  title  = {Parabolic isometries of visible CAT(0) spaces and metrics on moduli space},
  author = {Yunhui Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1618},
  year   = {2013}
}

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