Semialgebraic description of Teichmüller space

DOI10.2977/PRIMS/1195145147MaRDI QIDQ1387734zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yohei Komori

Publication date 30 September 1998

Published in Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2977/prims/1195145147

zbMATH Keywords

connectednesscontractibilitysemialgebraic setTeichmüller space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Semialgebraic sets and related spaces (14P10) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15)

Review text

The object of this paper is to study the semialgebraic structure of the Teichmüller space \(T_g\). To describe \(T_g\) as a semialgebraic set, one can consider the space of representations of the surface group \(\Gamma_g\) in \(SL_2(\mathbb{R})\) as a real algebraic set \(R(\Gamma)\) in \(SL_2 (\mathbb{R})^{2f}\) and take the quotient \(X(\Gamma)\) in the invariant theoretic sense by the adjoint action of \(PGL_2(\mathbb{R})\). \(T_g\) can then be realised as a semialgebraic set in \(X(\Gamma)\) of dimension \(6g-6\). Having reviewed this construction, the author describes global coordinates on a certain finite union of connected components of \(X(\Gamma)\). Using these, he gives an explicit description of \(T_g\) as a semialgebraic set, hence giving new proofs of the connectedness and contractibility of \(T_g\).

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