Pleating coordinates for the Earle embedding (Q1612801)

In this article the authors consider, as a model of the Teichmüller space of one-punctured torus, the Earle slice of quasi-Fuchsian groups. This slice consists of those quasi-Fuchsian groups that uniformize one-punctured tori and which also admit a Möbius transformation of order two that normalizes it. These quasi-Fuchsian groups \(G=\langle A, B \rangle\) in the Earle slice, depend on a complex parameter \(d \in {\mathbb C}\), \(\Re d>0\), so that the above involution is \(z \mapsto -z\) and the parabolic transformation \(P=ABA^{-1}B^{-1}\) is given by \(z \mapsto z+2\). The main idea is to give a description of the set of parameters \(d\), which is a model of the above Teichmüller space. For this, the authors look at the pleating varieties. Essentially this is to look at those groups in the Earle slice for which certain primitive simple loxodromic are in fact hyperbolic, that is, have real trace. From the point of view of hyperbolic \(3\)-manifold \({\mathbb H}^{3}/G\), it means to look at the two boundary components of its convex core, in the case \(G\) is not Fuchsian. Each boundary is a bended punctured torus. The bending carries a transverse measure. The above then can be seen as fixing the bendings and describe the respective groups. This work is part of a series of papers on this subject by C. Series and L. Keen.