Shearing coordinates and convexity of length functions on Teichmueller space
Geometric Topology
2009-02-06 v1
Abstract
We prove that there are Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates for the Teichmueller space of a finite area hyperbolic surface with respect to which the length functions are convex.
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@article{arxiv.0902.0829,
title = {Shearing coordinates and convexity of length functions on Teichmueller space},
author = {M. Bestvina and K. Bromberg and K. Fujiwara and J. Souto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.0829},
year = {2009}
}