A length comparison theorem for geodesic currents

Abstract: We work with the space

m a t h c a l C (S)

of geodesic currents on a closed surface

S

of negative Euler characteristic. By prior work of the author with Sebastian Hensel, each filling geodesic current

m u

has a unique length-minimizing metric

X

in Teichm"uller space. In this paper, we show that, on so-called thick components of

X

, the geometries of

m u

and

X

are comparable, up to a scalar depending only on

m u

and the topology of

S

. We also characterize thick components of the projection using only the length function of

m u

.

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