Bijections of geodesic lamination space preserving left Hausdorff convergence

DOI10.1007/S00605-018-1233-4MaRDI QIDQ2003536zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ken'ichi Ohshika, Athanase Papadopoulos

Publication date 9 July 2019

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00764

zbMATH Keywords

approximable laminationasymmetric Hausdorff distancecomplete laminationfinite laminationgeodesic laminationgeodesic lamination spaceHausdorff distancehyperbolic structuremapping class grouprigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: We introduce an asymmetric distance function, which we call the `left Hausdorff distance function', on the space of geodesic laminations on a closed hyperbolic surface of genus at least 2. This distance is an asymmetric version of the Hausdorff distance between compact subsets of a metric space. We prove a rigidity result for the action of the extended mapping class group of the surface on the space of geodesic laminations equipped with the topology induced from this distance. More specifically, we prove that there is a natural homomorphism from the extended mapping class group into the group of bijections of the space of geodesic laminations that preserve left Hausdorff convergence and that this homomorphism is an isomorphism.

Review text

Let \(S\) be a closed oriented surface of genus \(g \ge 2\); as the authors note, the mapping class group and extended mapping class group of \(S\) (allowing also orientation-reversing homeomorphisms) admit actions on spaces with various structures: Teichmüller spaces with complex analytic structures and also equipped with various types of metrics, combinatorial and piecewise-linear structures (curve complexes, measured lamination spaces) and topological structures (spaces of laminations and foliations); often such structures are rigid in the sense that their automorphism groups coincide with the natural actions of the mapping class groups. The authors of the present paper consider the space \(\mathcal{GL}(S)\) of geodesic laminations on \(S\) (for a fixed hyperbolic metric, as defined by Thurston in his Princeton Lecture Notes). Thurston considered two topologies on \(\mathcal{GL}(S)\), the geometric (or Thurston) topology and the Hausdorff topology. It is shown in a paper by \textit{C. Charitos} et al. [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 142, No. 6, 2179--2191 (2014; Zbl 1311.57021)] that the homeomorphism group of \(\mathcal{GL}(S)\) with the Thurston topology coincides with the extended mapping class group, but that for the Hausdorff topology it is much larger. In the present paper the authors define and study an asymmetric distance function on \(\mathcal{GL}(S)\), the \textit{left Hausdorff distance function} which is an asymmetric version of the Hausdorff distance (between compact subsets of a metric space). Their main result is the rigidity result that the natural map from the extended mapping class group into the group of bijections of \(\mathcal{GL}(S)\) which preserve left Hausdorff convergence is an isomorphism.

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