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Thin triangles and a multiplicative ergodic theorem for Teichm\"uller geometry

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We show that, in the Teichm\"uller metric, "thin-framed triangles are thin"---that is, under suitable hypotheses, the variation of geodesics obeys a hyperbolic-like inequality. This theorem has applications to the study of random walks on Teichm\"uller space. In particular, an application is worked out for the action of the mapping class group: we show that geodesics track random walks sublinearly.

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@article{arxiv.math/0508046,
  title  = {Thin triangles and a multiplicative ergodic theorem for Teichm\"uller geometry},
  author = {Moon Duchin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0508046},
  year   = {2007}
}

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23 pages