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A new boundary of the mapping class group

Geometric Topology 2023-02-15 v1

Abstract

Based on the action of the mapping class group on the space of measured foliations, we construct a new boundary of the mapping class group and study the structure of this boundary. As an application, for any point in Teichmuller space, we consider the orbit of this point under the action of the mapping class group and describe the closure of this orbit in the Thurston compactification and the Gardiner-Masur compactification of Teichmuller space. We also construct some new points in the Gardiner-Masur boundary of Teichmuller space.

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@article{arxiv.2302.06850,
  title  = {A new boundary of the mapping class group},
  author = {Lixin Liu and Yaozhong Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.06850},
  year   = {2023}
}

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To appear in Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series

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