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

DOI10.1007/S00039-009-0034-2zbMATH Open1216.32007arXiv0802.1370OpenAlexW2592655192WikidataQ56873224 ScholiaQ56873224MaRDI QIDQ2269892FDOQ2269892

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

Publication date: 12 March 2010

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

ending laminationWeil-Petersson geodesic flow[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=asymptotics+of+geodesics+in+the+Weil-Petersson+metric+on+the+Teichm%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDller+space&go=Go asymptotics of geodesics in the Weil-Petersson metric on the Teichm��ller space]Gromov-boundary

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)

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