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Thurston's asymmetric metric on Margulis spacetimes

Geometric Topology 2025-12-10 v1 Dynamical Systems Group Theory

Abstract

In this article, we extend Thurston's asymmetric metric and the associated Finsler norm, originally defined for Teichm\"uller space, to the setting of Margulis spacetimes. We also establish several convexity properties of both the asymmetric metric and the corresponding Finsler norm.

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@article{arxiv.2512.08019,
  title  = {Thurston's asymmetric metric on Margulis spacetimes},
  author = {Krishnendu Gongopadhyay and Neelanjan Mondal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.08019},
  year   = {2025}
}