Coarse and synthetic Weil-Petersson geometry: Quasi-flats, geodesics and relative hyperbolicity

DOI10.2140/gt.2008.12.2453zbMath1176.30096arXiv0707.1469MaRDI QIDQ1006114

Jeffrey F. Brock, Howard A. Masur

Publication date: 19 March 2009

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1469

zbMATH Keywords

Teichmüller space; pants graph; relative hyperbolicity; Weil-Petersson geoemtry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

20F67: Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups

30F60: Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces

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