On Teichmüller spaces and modular transformations (Q1078730)

Let G be a finitely generated Fuchsian group of the first kind acting on the upper half plane U such that the Riemann surface U/G is of type (p,n) with \(2p+n-2>0.\) The author investigates the infinite iterations of parabolic and pseudo-hyperbolic modular transformations of Teichmüller space T(G). For each modular transformation \(\chi\) and for \(x\in T(G)\), A(\(\chi\) ;x) denotes the set of all accumulations points of \(\{\chi^ n(x)\}\). The main results of this paper are as follows: If \(\chi\in Mod(G)\) is parabolic, then A(\(\chi\) ;x) consists of regular b-groups for each \(x\in T(G)\). If \(\chi\in Mod(G)\) is pseudo-hyperbolic, then A(\(\chi\) ;x) for each \(x\in T(G)\) consists of cusps and contains a degenerate cusp. These results are related to a recent result of \textit{L. Bers} [Am. J. Math. 105, 1-11 (1983; Zbl 0525.30036)] which asserts that the infinite iterations of a hyperbolic modular transformation accumulate to boundary points corresponding to totally degenerate groups.