Metrics and compactifications of Teichmüller spaces of flat tori

DOI10.4310/AJM.2021.V25.N4.A2zbMATH Open1493.30091arXiv1903.10655OpenAlexW2925217650MaRDI QIDQ2143449FDOQ2143449

Mark Greenfield, Lizhen Ji

Publication date: 31 May 2022

Published in: The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using the identification of the symmetric space $mathrmSL(n,mathbbR)/mathrmSO(n)$ with the Teichm"uller space of flat $n$-tori of unit volume, we explore several metrics and compactifications of these spaces, drawing inspiration both from Teichm"uller theory and symmetric spaces. We define and study analogs of the Thurston, Teichm"uller, and Weil-Petersson metrics. We show the Teichm"uller metric is a symmetrization of the Thurston metric, which is a polyhedral Finsler metric, and the Weil-Petersson metric is the Riemannian metric of $mathrmSL(n,mathbbR)/mathrmSO(n)$ as a symmetric space. We also construct a Thurston-type compactification using measured foliations on $n$-tori, and show that the horofunction compactification with respect to the Thurston metric is isomorphic to it, as well as to a minimal Satake compactification.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10655

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemann surfacesymmetric spaceflat torusTeichmüller space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

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