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In this article we introduce a natural extension of the well-studied equation for harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds by assuming that the target manifold is equipped with a connection that is metric but has non-vanishing torsion.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Volker Branding

Let $S$ be a closed, oriented surface with a finite (possibly empty) set of points removed. In this paper we relate two important but disparate topics in the study of the moduli space $\M(S)$ of Riemann surfaces: Teichm\"{u}ller geometry…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-06-21 Benson Farb , Howard Masur

We undertake a systematic study of the infinitesimal geometry of the Thurston metric, showing that the topology, convex geometry and metric geometry of the tangent and cotangent spheres based at any marked hyperbolic surface representing a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Yi Huang , Ken'Ichi Ohshika , Athanase Papadopoulos

We consider some metrics and weak metrics defined on the Teichmueller space of a surface of finite type with nonempty boundary, that are defined using the hyperbolic length spectrum of simple closed curves and of properly embedded arcs, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-07-22 Lixin Liu , Athanase Papadopoulos , Weixu Su , Guillaume Théret

In this paper we prove that the limit set of any Weil-Petersson geodesic ray with uniquely ergodic ending lamination is a single point in the Thurston compactification of Teichm\"uller space. On the other hand, we construct examples of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Jeffrey Brock , Christopher Leininger , Babak Modami , Kasra Rafi

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 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

In this paper, we introduce a new variation of the Teichm\"{u}ller space, namely the deformation space of hyperbolic structures on a surface with both enhancement and decoration. We construct the parameterization of this deformation space,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Katsuhiro Miguchi

We show that the action of the mapping class group on the space of closed curves of a closed surface effectively tracks the corresponding action on Teichm\"uller space in the following sense: for all but quantitatively few mapping classes,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Francisco Arana-Herrera

We show that both Teichmuller space (with the Teichmuller metric) and the mapping class group (with a word metric) have geodesic divergence that is intermediate between the linear rate of flat spaces and the exponential rate of hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-06-10 Moon Duchin , Kasra Rafi

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

The Teichm\"uller harmonic map flow, introduced in [9], evolves both a map from a closed Riemann surface to an arbitrary compact Riemannian manifold, and a constant curvature metric on the domain, in order to reduce its harmonic map energy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Melanie Rupflin , Peter M. Topping , Miaomiao Zhu

We give a proof of an unpublished result of Thurston showing that given any hyperbolic metric on a surface of finite type with nonempty boundary, there exists another hyperbolic metric on the same surface for which the lengths of all simple…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-09 Athanase Papadopoulos , Guillaume Théret

These are notes on the hyperbolic geometry of surfaces, Teichm{\"u}ller spaces and Thurston's metric on these spaces. They are associated with lectures I gave at the Morningside Center of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Athanase Papadopoulos

Given a surface of infinite topological type, there are several Teichm\"uller spaces associated with it, depending on the basepoint and on the point of view that one uses to compare different complex structures. This paper is about the…

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

We give a sufficient criterion, which we call stability, for a coarse Lipschitz map $f$ from a complete manifold $X$ with Ricci curvature bounded below to a proper Hadamard space $Y$ to be within bounded distance of a harmonic map. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-24 J. Maxwell Riestenberg , Peter Smillie

We provide a complete classification of Teichm\"uller curves occurring in hyperelliptic components of the meromorphic strata of differentials. Using a non-existence criterion based on how Teichm\"uller curves intersect the boundary of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Martin Möller , Scott Mullane

We show that any grafting ray in Teichm\"{u}ller space determined by an arational lamination or a multi-curve is (strongly) asymptotic to a Teichm\"{u}ller geodesic ray. As a consequence the projection of a generic grafting ray to moduli…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Subhojoy Gupta

In this paper we study the Teichm\"uller harmonic map flow as introduced by Rupflin and Topping [15]. It evolves pairs of maps and metrics $(u,g)$ into branched minimal immersions, or equivalently into weakly conformal harmonic maps, where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Tobias Huxol

This paper develops new tools for understanding surfaces with more than one end (and usually, of infinite topology) which properly minimally embed into Euclidean three-space. On such a surface, the set of ends forms a compact Hausdorff…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Pascal Collin , Robert Kusner , William H. Meeks , III , Harold Rosenberg