Hyperbolic Structures for Surfaces of Infinite Type (Q4038458)

The author considers hyperbolic surfaces of infinite type, that are surfaces with an infinitely generated fundamental group. In particular he constructs surfaces called (tight) flute spaces from a union of pairs of (tight) pants each glued to the next along a common boundary geodesic. The author showed that given any sequence of positive numbers \(\{d_ i\}\) there exists a hyperbolic structure for a flute space having a nested sequence of geodesics of hyperbolic distances \(\{d_ i\}\). Secondly he supplied necessary and sufficient conditions in the form of inequalities involving distances between geodesics for the existence of a hyperbolic structure on a tight flute. It has been shown that a Fuchsian group associated to a tight flute is of the first kind if \(\sum d_ i=\infty\). The author supplies sufficient conditions on an infinite number of polygons so that when glued together they form a new fundamental polygon. Finally, a number of applications to the deformation theory of infinite type hyperbolic surfaces are examined.