Finite height lamination spaces for surfaces

Abstract: We describe spaces of essential finite height (measured) laminations in a surface

S

using a parameter space we call

m a t h b b S

, an ordered semi-ring. We show that for every finite height essential lamination

L

in

S

, there is an action of

p i_{1} (S)

on an

m a t h b b S

-tree dual to the lift of

L

to the universal cover of

S

.

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