Pleating coordinates for the Maskit embedding of the Teichmüller space of punctured tori (Q1319600)

A new set of parameters called pleating coordinates are introduced for the Teichmüller space \(T_{1,1}\) of the punctured torus. Via the Maskit embedding \(T_{1,1}\) is identified with a holomorphic family of Kleinian groups \(G_ \mu\) depending on a complex parameter \(\mu\) that varies in a simply connected domain \({\mathcal M}\) in \(\mathbb{C}\). The coordinates are directly related to the geometry of the hyperbolic manifolds \(\mathbb{H}^ 3/G_ \mu\), they reflect the visual patterns one sees in the limit sets and they are directly computable from the generators of \(G_ \mu\). The results of this paper were announced in Bull. Am. Soc., New. Ser. No. 1, 141-146 (1992; Zbl 0745.30044)]. The authors have since then defined analogous coordinates for other Teichmüller spaces. Some of the techniques in this paper are special to the punctured torus. The authors claim that they can be replaced and that pleating coordinates can be defined for Teichmüller spaces of arbitrary Riemann surfaces of finite type and for a large class of geometrically finite Kleinian groups.