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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

In his seminal work on Teichm\"uller spaces (\cite{Th98}), Thurston introduced the maximal stretch for a pair of hyperbolic metrics on a closed surface of genus $\geq 2$ and showed that the logarithm of this quantity induces an asymmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Xian Dai , Gerhard Knieper

Thurston boundary of the universal Teichm\"uller space $T(\mathbb{D})$ is the space $PML_{bdd}(\mathbb{D})$ of projective bounded measured laminations of $\mathbb{D}$. A geodesic ray in $T(\mathbb{D})$ is of generalized Teichm\"uller type…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Xinlong Dong , Hrant Hakobyan

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

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

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 study the geometry of hyperbolic cone surfaces, possibly with cusps or geodesic boundaries. We prove that any hyperbolic cone structure on a surface of non-exceptional type is determined up to isotopy by the geodesic lengths of a finite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Huiping Pan

We construct a Teichmuller geodesic which does not have a limit on the Thurston boundary of the Teichmuller space.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Anna Lenzhen

We propose the graph description of Teichm\"uller theory of surfaces with marked points on boundary components (bordered surfaces). Introducing new parameters, we formulate this theory in terms of hyperbolic geometry. We can then describe…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-19 Leonid Chekhov

Let $X_0$ be a complete borderless infinite area hyperbolic surface. We introduce Thurston's boundary to the Teichm\"uller space $T(X_0)$ of the surface $X_0$ using Liouville (geodesic) currents. Thurston's boundary to $T(X_0)$ is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Dragomir Saric

Let $S$ be a closed orientable surface with genus $g\geq 2$. For a sequence $\s_i$ in the Teichm\"uller space of $S$, which converges to a projective measured lamination $[\lam]$ in the Thurston boundary, we obtain a relation between $\lam$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Young Deuk Kim

In this paper, we study the asymptotic geometry of Teichmuller space of Riemann surfaces and give bounds on the Weil-Petersson sectional curvature of Teichmuller space, in terms of the length of the shortest geodesic on the surface. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zheng Huang

While there may be many Thurston metric geodesics between a pair of points in Teichm\"uller space, we find that by imposing an additional energy minimization constraint on the geodesics, thought of as limits of harmonic map rays, we select…

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

We analyse the convex structure of the Finsler infinitesimal balls of the Thurston metric on Teichm{\"u}ller space. We obtain a characterisation of faces, exposed faces and extreme points of the unit spheres. In particular, we prove that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Assaf Bar-Natan , Ken'Ichi Ohshika , Athanase Papadopoulos

Thurston's boundary to the universal Teichm\"uller space $T(\mathbb{D})$ is the space $PML_{bdd}(\mathbb{D})$ of projective bounded measured laminations of $\mathbb{D}$. A geodesic ray in $T(\mathbb{D})$ is of Teichm\"uller type if it…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Hrant Hakobyan , Dragomir Saric

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

In his paper Minimal stretch maps between hyperbolic surfaces, William Thurston defined a norm on the tangent space to Teichm{\"u}ller space of a hyperbolic surface, which he called the earthquake norm. This norm is obtained by assigning a…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Hideki Miyachi , Ken'Ichi Ohshika , Athanase Papadopoulos

We characterize which cobounded quasigeodesics in the Teichmueller space T of a closed surface are at bounded distance from a geodesic. More generally, given a cobounded lipschitz path gamma in T, we show that gamma is a quasigeodesic with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Lee Mosher

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 study the Lipschitz metric on Teichmuller space (defined by Thurston) and compare it with the Teichmuller metric. We show that in the thin part of Teichmuller space the Lipschitz metric is approximated up to bounded additive distortion…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Young-Eun Choi , Kasra Rafi