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The Goldman and Fock-Goncharov coordinates for convex projective structures on surfaces

Geometric Topology 2018-08-02 v2

Abstract

Let P(S) be the space of convex projective structures on a surface S with negative Euler characteristic. Goldman and Bonahon-Dreyer constructed two different sets of global coordinates for P(S), both associated to a pair of pants decomposition of the surface S. The article explicitly describes the coordinate change between these two parametrizations. Most of the arguments are concentrated in the case where S is a pair of pants, in which case the Bonahon-Dreyer coordinates are actually due to Fock-Goncharov.

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@article{arxiv.1607.03650,
  title  = {The Goldman and Fock-Goncharov coordinates for convex projective structures on surfaces},
  author = {Francis Bonahon and Inkang Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.03650},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

12 pages. Version 2: Misprints corrected, and a couple of references added