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There are several Teichm\"uller spaces associated to a surface of infinite topological type, after the choice of a particular basepoint (a complex or a hyperbolic structure on the surface). These spaces include the quasiconformal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Daniele Alessandrini , Lixin Liu , Athanase Papadopoulos , Weixu Su

The Teichm\"uller harmonic map flow is a gradient flow for the harmonic map energy of maps from a closed surface to a general closed Riemannian target manifold of any dimension, where both the map and the domain metric are allowed to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Tobias Huxol , Melanie Rupflin , Peter M. Topping

The Teichm\"uller harmonic map flow deforms both a map from an oriented closed surface $M$ into an arbitrary closed Riemannian manifold, and a constant curvature metric on $M$, so as to reduce the energy of the map as quickly as possible…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Melanie Rupflin , Peter M. Topping

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

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

In this paper, we study the limit of Teichm\"uller distance between two points along a pair of Teichm\"uller rays. We obtain an explicit formula for the limiting Teichm\"uller distance when the vertical measured foliations of the quadratic…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Guangming Hu , Zhiyang Lyu , Hideki Miyachi , Yi Qi

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

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

Considering the Teichm\"uller space of a surface equipped with Thurston's Lipschitz metric, we study geodesic segments whose endpoints have bounded combinatorics. We show that these geodesics are cobounded, and that the closest-point…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Anna Lenzhen , Kasra Rafi , Jing Tao

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

We study the Teichm\"uller space $\mathcal{T}(S,\underline{p})$ of hyperbolic cone-surfaces of fixed topological type with marked cone singularities. Fix a combinatorial triangulation $G$, and let $\mathcal{T}(G)\subset…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Qiyu Chen , Youliang Zhong

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

We show the map $\sigma : T_g \to C_g$ sending a compact hyperbolic surface $X$ to a random simple closed geodesic on $X$ determines a proper embedding of Teichm\"uller space into the space of geodesic currents. The proof depends on a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Curtis T. McMullen , Tina Torkaman

We define a geometric flow that is designed to change surfaces of cylindrical type spanning two disjoint boundary curves into solutions of the Douglas-Plateau problem of finding minimal surfaces with given boundary curves. We prove that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Melanie Rupflin

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

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 introduce a new type of boundary for proper geodesic spaces, called the Morse boundary, that is constructed with rays that identify the "hyperbolic directions" in that space. This boundary is a quasi-isometry invariant and thus produces…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Matthew Cordes

We investigate a metric structure on the Thurston boundary of Teichm\"uller space. To do this, we develop tools in sup metrics and apply Minsky's theorem.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Moon Duchin , Nathan Fisher

In this paper we study the convergence behavior of grafting rays to the Thurston boundary of Teichmuller space. When the grafting is done along a weighted system of simple closed curves or along a maximal uniquely ergodic lamination this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-09-20 Raquel Diaz , Inkang Kim

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