Pleating invariants for punctured torus groups.

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(03)00052-1MaRDI QIDQ1426433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 14 March 2004

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0209189

convex hull boundary once punctured torus quasi-Fuchsian group

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: In this paper we give a complete description of the space

Q F

of quasifuchsian punctured torus groups in terms of what we call {em pleating invariants}. These are natural invariants of the boundary

of the convex core of the associated hyperbolic 3-manifold

M

and give coordinates for the non-Fuchsian groups

Q F - F

. The pleating invariants of a component of

consist of the projective class of its bending measure, together with the lamination length of a fixed choice of transverse measure in this class. Our description complements that of Minsky in cite{MinskyPT}, in which he describes the space of all punctured torus groups in terms of {em ending invariants} which characterize the asymptotic geometry of the ends of

M

. Pleating invariants give a quasifuchsian analog of the Kerckhoff-Thurston description of Fuchsian space by critical lines and earthquake horocycles. The critical lines extend to {em pleating planes} on which the pleating loci of

are constant and the horocycles extend to {em BM-slices} on which the pleating invariants of one component of

are fixed. We prove that the pleating planes corresponding to rational laminations are dense and that their boundaries can be found {em explicitly}. This means, answering questions posed by Bers in the late 1960's, that it is possible to compute an arbitrarily accurate picture of the shape of any embedding of

Q F

into

C C^{2}

.

Review text

In the late 1960's Bers posed a question of finding the shape of quasi-Fuchsian space explicitly. In this paper the authors give a complete description of the space of quasi-Fuchsian punctured torus groups by using pleating invariants. Pleating invariants for a non-Fuchsian quasi-Fuchsian group is the projective class of a pair of a measured lamination \(\mu^{\pm}\) and its lamination length \(l_{\mu^{\pm}}\), where \(\mu^{\pm}\) is chosen from the projective class of the bending measures \([pl^{\pm}]\). A non-Fuchsian quasi-Fuchsian marked punctured torus group is determined by the pleating invariants uniquely up to conjugacy in \(\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb C)\). It is proved that the rational pleating planes are dense in the space of quasi-Fuchsian punctured torus groups. For measured laminations \(\mu,\nu\) on the punctured torus with the intersection \(i(\mu,\nu)>0\) and \(c>0\), it is proved that the pleating ray satisfying \([pl^{+}]=[\mu]\), \([pl^{-}]=[\nu]\) and \(l_{\nu}=c\) is a non-empty connected non-singular component of the \(\mathbb R^{+}\)-locus of the restriction of the complex length \(\lambda_{\nu}\) to the quakebend plane \(\mathcal Q_{\mu,c}\). The restriction is a diffeomorphism onto its image. Also the authors give examples to compute the pleating plane.

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