Measured geodesic laminations in flatland

DOI10.5802/TSG.297MaRDI QIDQ5365476zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas Morzadec

Publication date 6 October 2017

Published in Séminaire de théorie spectrale et géométrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04057

zbMATH Keywords

dual treehalf-translation structureholomorphic quadratic differentialhyperbolic surfacemeasured foliationmeasured geodesic laminationsurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30) Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: Since their introduction by Thurston, measured geodesic laminations on hyperbolic surfaces occur in many contexts. In this survey, we give a generalization of geodesic laminations on surfaces endowed with a half-translation structure, called flat laminations, and we define transverse measures on flat laminations similar to transverse measures on hyperbolic laminations, taking into account that the images of the leaves of a flat lamination are in general not pairwise disjoint. One aim is to construct a tool that could allow a fine description of the space of degenerations of half-translation structures on a surface. We define a topology on the set of measured flat laminations and a natural continuous projection of the space of measured flat laminations onto the space of measured hyperbolic laminations, for any arbitrary half-translation structure and hyperbolic metric on a surface. We prove in particular that the space of measured flat laminations is projectively compact. The main result of this survey is a classification theorem of (measured) flat laminations on a compact surface endowed with a half-translation structure. We also give an exposition of that every finite metric fat graph, outside four homeomorphisms classes, is the support of uncountably many measured flat laminations with uncountably many leaves none of which is eventually periodic, and that the space of measured flat laminations is separable and projectively compact.

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