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We study compact hyperbolic surface laminations. These are a generalization of closed hyperbolic surfaces which appear to be more suited to the study of Teichm\"uller theory than arbitrary non-compact surfaces. We show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Sébastien Alvarez , Graham Smith

Given a hyperelliptic hyperbolic surface $S$ of genus $g \geq 2$, we find bounds on the lengths of homologically independent loops on $S$. As a consequence, we show that for any $\lambda \in (0,1)$ there exists a constant $N(\lambda)$ such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Peter Buser , Eran Makover , Bjoern Muetzel

In this survey paper we give a proof of hyperbolicity of the complex of curves for a non-exceptional surface S of finite type combining ideas of Masur/Minsky and Bowditch. We also shortly discuss the relation between the geometry of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ursula Hamenstaedt

Let $X$ be a closed hyperbolic surface and $\lambda, \eta$ be weighted geodesic multicurves which are short on X. We show that the iterated grafting along $\lambda$ and $\eta$ is close in the Teichmueller metric to grafting along a single…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-15 Sebastian W. Hensel

In this paper we study the boundary at infinity of the curve complex $\mathcal{C}(S)$ of a surface $S$ of finite type and the relative Teichm\"{u}ller space $\mathcal{T}_{el}(S)$ obtained from the Teichm\"{u}ller space by collapsing each…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Erica Klarreich

Let $X$ be an infinite geodesically complete hyperbolic surface which can be decomposed into geodesic pairs of pants. We introduce Thurston's boundary to the Teichm\"uller space $T(X)$ of the surface $X$ using the length spectrum analogous…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Dragomir Saric

We consider the limit set in Thurston's compactification PMF of Teichmueller space of some Teichmueller geodesics defined by quadratic differentials with minimal but not uniquely ergodic vertical foliations. We show that a) there are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-04 Jon Chaika , Howard Masur , Michael Wolf

We study the Teichm\"uller metric on the Teichm\"uller space of a surface of finite type, in regions where the injectivity radius of the surface is small. The main result is that in such regions the Teichm\"uller metric is approximated up…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Yair Minsky

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

Given a compact orientable surface of negative Euler characteristic, there exists a natural pairing between the Teichmueuller space of the surface and the set of homotopy classes of simple loops and arcs. The length pairing sends a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Feng Luo , Richard Stong

We estimate the distance in the curve graph of a surface S of finite type using Teichmueller geodesics and assuming to be able to detect curves of distance at least three.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-06-04 Ursula Hamenstaedt

We continue our investigation of the space of geodesic laminations on a surface, endowed with the Hausdorff topology. We determine the topology of this space for the once-punctured torus and the 4-times-punctured sphere. For these two…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Francis Bonahon , Xiaodong Zhu

The consideration of the so-called rotation minimizing frames allows for a simple and elegant characterization of plane and spherical curves in Euclidean space via a linear equation relating the coefficients that dictate the frame motion.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Luiz C. B. da Silva , José Deibsom da Silva

In this note, we develop a condition on a closed curve on a surface or in a 3-manifold that implies that the curve has the property that its length function on the space of all hyperbolic structures on the surface or 3-manifold completely…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-05 James W. Anderson

Given a measured geodesic lamination on a hyperbolic surface, grafting the surface along multiples of the lamination defines a path in Teichmuller space, called the grafting ray. We show that every grafting ray, after reparametrization, is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-04-20 Young-Eun Choi , David Dumas , Kasra Rafi

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

Let $\mathcal T$ be the Teichm\"{u}ller space of marked genus $g$, $n$ punctured Riemann surfaces with its bordification $\Tbar$ the {\em augmented Teichm\"{u}ller space} of marked Riemann surfaces with nodes, \cite{Abdegn, Bersdeg}.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-01 Scott A. Wolpert

We prove a quantitative version of the non-uniform hyperbolicity of the Teichm\"uller geodesic flow. Namely, at each point of any Teichm\"uller flow line, we bound the infinitesimal spectral gap for variations of the Hodge norm along the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Ian Frankel

On a surface with a Finsler metric, we investigate the asymptotic growth of the number of closed geodesics of length less than $L$ which minimize length among all geodesic multicurves in the same homology class. An important class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Daniel Massart , Hugo Parlier

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