On hyperbolic once-punctured-torus bundles. III: Comparing two tessellations of the complex plane (Q977451)

Let \(\varphi\) be a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of the once-punctured torus \(T=(\mathbb{R}^{2}-\mathbb{Z}^{2})/\mathbb{Z}^{2}\) and let \(T_{\varphi}\) be the bundle over the circle with fiber \(T\) and monodromy \(\varphi.\) By Thurston's uniformization theorem, \(T_{\varphi}\) admits a complete hyperbolic structure of finite volume with a single torus cusp. Also \(T_{\varphi}\) admits a canonical decomposition into ideal tetrahedra which induces a triangulation of any peripheral torus, which in turn lifts to a triangulation, \(\Delta(\varphi),\) of the universal covering of the peripheral torus. Assuming that the ideal point \(\infty\) of the upper-half space \(\mathbb{H}^{3}\) is a parabolic fixed point of the Kleinian group \(\Gamma=\pi_{1}(T_{\varphi}),\) we may regard \(\Delta(\varphi)\) as a triangulation of the horosphere at \(\infty,\) and then, by projection from \(\infty,\) as a triangulation of the complex plane \(\mathbb{C}\) which is invariant by the stabilizer \(\Gamma_{\infty} \cong\mathbb{Z}^{2}\) of \(\infty\) in \(\Gamma.\) On the other hand, the Cannon-Thurston map associated to \(T_{\varphi}\) is a Riemann-sphere-filling \(\Gamma\)-invariant Peano curve. In the paper of \textit{J. W. Cannon} and \textit{W. Dicks} [Geom. Dedicata 123, 11--63 (2006; Zbl 1119.57007)], based on the Cannon-Thurston map, a \(\Gamma_{\infty}\)-invariant fractal tessellation \(CW(\varphi)\) is constructed on the complex plane \(\mathbb{C}.\) The present paper investigates the relation between \(\Delta(\varphi)\) and \(CW(\varphi).\) In fact, it is shown that \(\Delta(\varphi)\) and \(CW(\varphi)\) share the same vertex set and that the combinatorial structure of \(CW(\varphi)\) can be recovered from that of \(\Delta(\varphi)\) and vice versa.