Decorated Teichmüller theory of bordered surfaces (Q1769346)

The author extends the decorated Teichmüller theory for conformally finite type surfaces to the setting of topologically finite type surfaces, i.e., compact surfaces with finitely many points and disks removed, and there is a non-trivial new structure discovered. The main result is to identify an open dense subspace of the arc complex of a bordered surface up to proper homotopy equivalence with a certain quotient of the moduli space.