Pleating invariants for punctured torus groups.

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

Authors Linda Keen, Caroline Series

Publication date 14 March 2004

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

zbMATH Keywords

convex hull boundaryonce punctured torusquasi-Fuchsian group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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 $QF$ of quasifuchsian punctured torus groups in terms of what we call {em pleating invariants}. These are natural invariants of the boundary $$ of the convex core of the associated hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ and give coordinates for the non-Fuchsian groups $QF-F$. The pleating invariants of a component of $$ 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 $QF$ into $C{C}^2$.

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