Classifying complex geodesics for the Carathéodory metric on low-dimensional Teichmüller spaces (Q2177505)

Let \(\mathcal T=\mathcal T_{g,n}\) be the Teichmüller space of a finite-type orientable surface \(S_{g,n}\). The authors study the problem when the Carathéodory and Kobayashi metrics for \(\mathcal T\) coincide. It is equivalent to prove that every Teichmüller disk \(\tau:\mathbb H\longrightarrow\mathcal T\) is a holomorphic retract of \(\mathcal T\), where \(\mathbb H\subset\mathbb C\) stands for the upper half-plane. It is well known that each Teichmüller disk \(\tau\) is generated by a unit-norm holomorphic quadratic differential \(\varphi\); we write \(\tau=\tau^\varphi\). The main result states that a Teichmüller disk \(\tau^\varphi\) in \(\mathcal T_{0,5}\) or \(\mathcal T_{1,2}\) is a holomorphic retract if and only if the zeros of \(\varphi\) have all even order.