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We give two flexible and degenerate constructions related to a theorem of Thurston. First, we produce geodesic segments for Thurston's asymmetric metric on Teichm\"uller space $\mathcal{T}(S_g)$ that remain geodesics after adding arbitrary…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Alexander Nolte

We introduce a new method for studying length spectrum rigidity problems based on a combination of ideas from dynamical systems and geometric group theory. This allows us to compare the marked length spectrum of metrics and distance-like…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Stephen Cantrell , Eduardo Reyes

We show that the horofunction boundary of Teichm\"uller space with Thurston's Lipschitz metric is the same as the Thurston boundary. We use this to determine the isometry group of the Lipschitz metric, apart from in some exceptional cases.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Cormac Walsh

An expansion is developed for the Weil-Petersson Riemann curvature tensor in the thin region of the Teichm\"{u}ller and moduli spaces. The tensor is evaluated on the gradients of geodesic-lengths for disjoint geodesics. A precise lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-05 Scott A. Wolpert

We provide a good dynamical framework allowing to generalize Thurston's asymmetric metric and the associated Finsler norm from Teichm\"uller space to large classes of Anosov representations. In many cases, including the space of Hitchin…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-08 León Carvajales , Xian Dai , Beatrice Pozzetti , Anna Wienhard

Given a sequence of curves on a surface, we provide conditions which ensure that (1) the sequence is an infinite quasi-geodesic in the curve complex, (2) the limit in the Gromov boundary is represented by a nonuniquely ergodic ending…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Jeffrey Brock , Christopher Leininger , Babak Modami , Kasra Rafi

We determine the asymptotic behaviour of extremal length along arbitrary Teichm\"uller rays. This allows us to calculate the endpoint in the Gardiner-Masur boundary of any Teichm\"uller ray. We give a proof that this compactification is the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Cormac Walsh

We prove that the length spectrum metric and the arc-length spectrum metric are almost-isometric on the $\epsilon_0$-relative part of Teichmuller spaces of surfaces with boundary.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-01-06 Youliang Zhong , Lixin Liu , Weixu Su

We consider the limiting behavior of Teichm\"uller geodesics in the universal Teichm\"uller space $T(\mathbb{H})$. Our main result states that the limits of the Teichm\"uller geodesics in the Thurston's boundary of $T(\mathbb{H})$ may…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2014-09-22 Hrant Hakobyan , Dragomir Saric

We study the Asymptotic Cone of Teichm\"uller space equipped with the Weil-Petersson metric. In particular, we provide a characterization of the canonical finest pieces in the tree-graded structure of the asymptotic cone of Teichm\"uller…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Harold Mark Sultan

In this paper, we consider the asymptotic behavior of two Teichm\"uller geodesic rays determined by Jenkins-Strebel differentials, and we obtain a generalization of a theorem in \cite{Amano14}. We also consider the infimum of the asymptotic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Masanori Amano

We develop the notion of the active interval for a subsurface along a geodesic in the Thurston metric on Teichmuller space of a surface S. That is, for any geodesic in the Thurston metric and any subsurface R of S, we find an interval of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Anna Lenzhen , Babak Modami , Kasra Rafi , Jing Tao

We review and organize some results describing the behavior of a Teichm\"uller geodesic and draw several applications: 1) We show that Teichm\"uller geodesics do not back track. 2) We show that a Teichm\"uller geodesic segment whose…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Kasra Rafi

For a compact surface $X_0$, Thurston introduced a compactification of its Teichm\"uller space $\mathcal T(X_0)$ by completing it with a boundary $\mathcal{PML}(X_0)$ consisting of projective measured geodesic laminations. We introduce a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Francis Bonahon , Dragomir Šarić

Unlike the case of surfaces of topologically finite type, there are several different Teichm\"uller spaces that are associated to a surface of topological infinite type. These Teichm\"uller spaces first depend (set-theoretically) on whether…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-07-22 Lixin Liu , Athanase Papadopoulos

In this paper, we introduce an asymmetric metric on the space of marked Euclidean triangles, and we prove several properties of this metric, including two equivalent definitions of this metric, one of them comparing ratios of functions of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Ismail Saglam , Ken'Ichi Ohshika , Athanase Papadopoulos

The Teichm\"{u}ller curve is the fiber space over Teichm\"{u}ller space of closed Riemann surfaces, where the fiber over a point in Teichm\"{u}ller space is the underlying surface. We derive formulas for sectional curvatures on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-13 Ren Guo , Subhojoy Gupta , Zheng Huang

In this paper we develop a systematic deformation theory for conic constant curvature metrics on a closed surface when all cone angles are less than $2\pi$; in particular, we define and study the Teichm\"uller space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-28 Rafe Mazzeo , Hartmut Weiss

In this paper, we extend the construction of pressure metrics to Teichm\"uller spaces of surfaces with punctures. This construction recovers Thurston's Riemannian metric on Teichm\"uller spaces. Moreover, we prove the real analyticity and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Lien-Yung Kao

We show that any grafting ray in Teichm\"{u}ller space is (strongly) asymptotic to some Teichm\"{u}ller geodesic ray. As an intermediate step we introduce surfaces that arise as limits of these degenerating Riemann surfaces. Given a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-04-01 Subhojoy Gupta