Schmutz-Thurston Duality
Geometric Topology
2025-08-07 v1
Abstract
Two people who pioneered the study of mapping class group-equivariant deformation retractions of Teichm\"uller space of closed compact surfaces are Schmutz Schaller and Thurston. This paper studies how the two different approaches are dual to each other.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.04587,
title = {Schmutz-Thurston Duality},
author = {Ingrid Irmer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.04587},
year = {2025}
}