Comparisons of metrics on Teichmüller space (Q2267346)

For a Riemann surface \(X\) of conformally finite type \((g, n)\), let \(d_T\), \(d_L\), and \(d_{P_{i}}\), \(i = 1, 2\), be the Teichmüller metric, the length spectrum metric, and Thurston's pseudometrics on the Teichmüller space \(T(X)\), respectively. The authors get a description of the Teichmueller distance in terms of the Jenkins-Strebel differential lengths of simple closed curves. Using this result, by relatively short arguments, some comparisons between \(d_T\), \(d_L\), and \(d_{P_{i}}\), \(i = 1, 2\), on \(T_{\varepsilon}(X)\) and \(T(X)\) are obtained, respectively. These comparisons improve a corresponding result of Li a little. As applications, the authors first get an alternative proof of the topological equivalence of \(d_T\) to each of \(d_L\) and \(d_{P_{i}}, i = 1, 2\), on \(T(X)\). Second, a new proof of the completeness of the length spectrum metric from the viewpoint of Finsler geometry is given. Third, a simple proof of the following result of Liu-Papadopoulos is given: a sequence goes to infinity in \(T(X)\) with respect to \(d_T\) if and only if it goes to infinity with respect to \(d_L\) (as well as \(d_{P_{i}}\), \(i = 1,2\)). For a non-trivial simple closed curve \(\gamma \subset X\), let \(l_{X}(\gamma)\) be the shortest, with respect to the Poincaré metric, of the closed curves in the free homotopy class of \(\gamma\). Proposition 1. Let \(f : X_{1} \rightarrow X_{2}\) be a quasi-conformal mapping between hyperbolic Riemann surfaces. Then \[ \frac{l_{X_{2}} (f(\alpha))}{l_{X_{1}}(\alpha)} \leq K(f) \] holds for all non-trivial simple closed curves \(\alpha \subset X_{1}\). Lemma 1. \(d_{L} \leq d_{T},\) \(d_{P_{i}} \leq d_{T}\).