Asymptotics of Weil-Petersson geodesics. I: Ending laminations, recurrence, and flows

DOI10.1007/S00039-009-0034-2MaRDI QIDQ2269892zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeffrey F. Brock, Howard Masur, Yair N. Minsky

Publication date 12 March 2010

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1370

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotics of geodesics in the Weil-Petersson metric on the Teichmüller spaceending laminationGromov-boundaryWeil-Petersson geodesic flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35)

Abstract: We define an ending lamination for a Weil-Petersson geodesic ray. Despite the lack of a natural visual boundary for the Weil-Petersson metric, these ending laminations provide an effective boundary theory that encodes much of its asymptotic CAT(0) geometry. In particular, we prove an ending lamination theorem (Theorem 1.1) for the full-measure set of rays that recur to the thick part, and we show that the association of an ending lamination embeds asymptote classes of recurrent rays into the Gromov-boundary of the curve complex. As an application, we establish fundamentals of the topological dynamics of the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow, showing density of closed orbits and topological transitivity.

Review text

This paper is the first in a series considering the asymptotics of geodesics in the Weil-Petersson metric on the Teichmüller space \(T(S)\) of a compact surface \(S\) with negative Euler characteristic. The ending lamination \(\lambda({\mathbf r})\) for a ray \({\mathbf r}\) arises out of the asymptotics of simple closed curves with an a priori length bound. Despite the lack of a natural visual boundary for the Weil-Petersson metric, these ending laminations provide an effective boundary theory that encodes much of its asymptotic CAT(0) geometry. In particular, the authors prove an ending lamination theorem for the full-measure set of rays that recur to the thick part, and they show that the association of an ending lamination embeds asymptote classes of recurrent rays into the Gromov-boundary of the curve complex \({S}(S)\). As an application, the authors establish fundamentals of the topological dynamics of the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow, showing the density of closed orbits and topological transitivity.

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