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The horofunction compactification of the arc metric on Teichm\"uller space

Geometric Topology 2018-09-25 v2

Abstract

The arc metric is an asymmetric metric on the Teichm{\"u}ller space T(S) of a surface S with nonempty boundary. In this paper we study the relation between Thurston's compactification and the horofunction compactification of T(S) endowed with the arc metric. We prove that there is a natural homeomorphism between the two compactifications.

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@article{arxiv.1411.6208,
  title  = {The horofunction compactification of the arc metric on Teichm\"uller space},
  author = {Daniele Alessandrini and Lixin Liu and Athanase Papadopoulos and Weixu Su},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6208},
  year   = {2018}
}