Large-scale rank of Teichmüller space

DOI10.1215/00127094-0000006XMaRDI QIDQ2012194zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Alex Eskin, Howard Masur, Kasra Rafi

Publication date 28 July 2017

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3733

zbMATH Keywords

geometric rankTeichmüller spacetopological rankWeil-Petersson metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15)

Abstract: Let X be quasi-isometric to either the mapping class group equipped with the word metric, or to Teichmuller space equipped with either the Teichmuller metric or the Weil-Petersson metric. We introduce a unified approach to study the coarse geometry of these spaces. We show that the quasi-Lipschitz image in X of a box in R^n is locally near a standard model of a flat in X. As a consequence, we show that, for all these spaces, the geometric rank and the topological rank are equal. The methods are axiomatic and apply to a larger class of metric spaces.

Review text

The large-scale geometry of Teichmüller space (with both the Teichmüller and Weil-Petersson metrics) and the mapping class group is studied via understanding quasi-Lipschitz maps from boxes in Euclidean spaces to these spaces. For all sufficiently large boxes in Euclidean space it is shown that there is a large sub-box which gets mapped to a neighborhood of a standard flat in these spaces. As a consequence, the geometric and topological ranks of these spaces are shown to be equal. The key techniques involve the development of the ideas of coarse differentiation from [\textit{A. Eskin} et al., Ann. Math. (2) 176, No. 1, 221--260 (2012; Zbl 1264.22005); ibid. (2) 177, No. 3, 869--910 (2013; Zbl 1398.22012)]. Subsequently, the results of the paper have been axiomatized and extended to general \textit{hierarchially hyperbolic spaces} in [\textit{J. Behrstock} et al., Geom. Topol. 21, No. 3, 1731--1804 (2017; Zbl 1439.20043)].

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