Lengths of simple loops on surfaces with hyperbolic metrics

DOI10.2140/GT.2002.6.495zbMATH Open1029.30028arXivmath/0211421OpenAlexW2110909832MaRDI QIDQ1416618FDOQ1416618

Richard A. Stong, Feng Luo

Publication date: 15 December 2003

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

Abstract: Given a compact orientable surface of negative Euler characteristic, there exists a natural pairing between the Teichmueuller space of the surface and the set of homotopy classes of simple loops and arcs. The length pairing sends a hyperbolic metric and a homotopy class of a simple loop or arc to the length of geodesic in its homotopy class. We study this pairing function using the Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates on Teichmueller space and the Dehn-Thurston coordinates on the space of homotopy classes of curve systems. Our main result establishes Lipschitz type estimates for the length pairing expressed in terms of these coordinates. As a consequence, we reestablish a result of Thurston-Bonahon that the length pairing extends to a continuous map from the product of the Teichmueller space and the space of measured laminations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211421

zbMATH Keywords

surface[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Teichm%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDller+space&go=Go Teichm��ller space]hyperbolic metricsimple loop

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16)

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