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We show that the Teichm\"uller space of a surface without boundary and with punctures, equipped with Thurston's metric is the limit (in an appropriate sense) of Teichm\"uller spaces of surfaces with boundary, equipped with their arc…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Athanase Papadopoulos , Weixu Su

We study the asymptotic behavior of the solution curves of the dynamics of spacetimes of the topological type $\Sigma_{p}\times \mathbb{R}$, $p>1$, where $\Sigma_{p}$ is a closed Riemann surface of genus $p$, in the regime of $2+1$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Puskar Mondal

A Thurston map is a branched covering map from $\S^2$ to $\S^2$ with a finite postcritical set. We associate a natural Gromov hyperbolic graph $\G=\G(f,\mathcal C)$ with an expanding Thurston map $f$ and a Jordan curve $\mathcal C$ on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Qian Yin

Thurston's boundary to the universal Teichm\"uller space $T(\mathbb{H})$ is the set of asymptotic rays to the embedding of $T(\mathbb{H})$ in the space of geodesic currents; the boundary is identified with the projective bounded measured…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Hrant Hakobyan , Dragomir Saric

The Teichm\"uller space $\mathcal{T}(\Sigma)$ of a surface $\Sigma$ is equipped with Thurston's asymmetric metric. Stretch lines are oriented geodesics for this metric on $\mathcal{T}(\Sigma)$. We give the asymptotic behavior of the lengths…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Guillaume Théret

We highlight several analogies between the Finsler (infinitesimal) properties of Teichm\"uller's metric and Thurston's asymmetric metric on Teichm\"uller space. Thurston defined his asymmetric metric in analogy with Teichm\"ullers' metric,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-11-18 Athanase Papadopoulos , Weixu Su

We introduce a function model for the Teichm\"uller space of a closed hyperbolic Riemann surface. Then we introduce a new metric by using the maximum norm on the function space on the Teichm\"uller space. We prove that the identity map from…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Yunping Jiang

This paper is a survey about the Thurston metric on the Teichm\"uller space. The central issue is the constructions of extremal Lipschitz maps between hyperbolic surfaces. We review several constructions, including the original work of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Huiping Pan , Weixu Su

This is a mathematical commentary on Teichm{\"u}ller's paper ``Bestimmung der extremalen quasikonformen Abbildungen bei geschlossenen orientierten Riemannschen Fl{\"a}chen'' (Determination of extremal quasiconformal maps of closed oriented…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-10-12 Annette A'Campo-Neuen , Norbert A'Campo , Vincent Alberge , Athanase Papadopoulos

In 1980s, Thurston established a topological characterization theorem for postcritically finite rational maps. In this paper, a decomposition theorem for a class of postcritically infinite branched covering termed `Herman map' is developed.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-03-27 Xiaoguang Wang

Let $\phi$ be a post-critically finite branched covering of a two-sphere. By work of Koch, the Thurston pullback map induced by $\phi$ on Teichm\"{u}ller space descends to a multi-valued self-map --- a Hurwitz correspondence…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-10 Rohini Ramadas

For the Thurston (asymmetric) metric on Teichm\"uller space, the defect from being uniquely geodesic is described by the envelope, defined as the union of geodesics from the initial point to the terminal point. Using the harmonic stretch…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Huiping Pan , Michael Wolf

We continue the study of the analogue of Thurston's metric on the Teichm{\"u}ller space of Euclidean triangle which was started by Saglam and Papadopoulos in [1].By direct calculation, we give explicit expressions of the distance function…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Hideki Miyachi , Ken'Ichi Ohshika , Athanase Papadopoulos

Let f be an obstructed Thurston map with canonical obstruction \Gamma_f. We prove the following generalization of Pilgrim's conjecture: if the first-return map F of a periodic component C of the topological surface obtained from the sphere…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Nikita Selinger

For g at least 2, the Thurston spine Pg is the subspace of Teichmueller space Tg , consisting of the marked surfaces for which the set of shortest curves, the systoles, cuts the surface into polygons. Our main result is the existence of an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Olivier Mathieu

We compare some natural triangulations of the Teichm\"uller space of hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundary and of some bordifications. We adapt Scannell-Wolf's proof to show that grafting semi-infinite cylinders at the ends of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Gabriele Mondello

We study a family of Bowen-Series-like maps associated to any finitely generated Fuchsian group of the first kind with at least one cusp. These maps act on the boundary of the hyperbolic plane in a piecewise manner by generators of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Adam Abrams , Svetlana Katok , Ilie Ugarcovici

We prove a regularity theorem for harmonic maps into Teichm\"uller space. More specifically, if $u$ is a harmonic map from a Riemannian domain to the metric completion of Teichm\"uller space with respect to the Weil-Petersson metric, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Yitong Sun

The aim of these lecture notes is, after having quickly described various compactifications of the Teichm\"{u}ller space of a compact connected oriented surface minus finitely many points, to give a construction, by the equivariant Gromov…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Frédéric Paulin

In a 1998 preprint, Bill Thurston outlined a Teichmuller theory for hyperbolic surfaces based on maps between surfaces which minimize the Lipschitz constant (minimum stretch or best Lipschitz maps). In this paper we continue the analytic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Georgios Daskalopoulos , Karen Uhlenbeck