On Teichmüller spaces of surfaces with boundary

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Abstract: We characterization hyperbolic metrics on compact surfaces with boundary using a variational principle. As a consequence, a new parametrization of the Teichmuller space of compact surface with boundary is produced. In the new parametrization, the Teichmuller space becomes an open convex polytope. It is conjectured that the Weil-Petersson symplectic form can be expressed explicitly in terms of the new coordinate.


In the paper under review, the author first characterizes hyperbolic metrics on a triangulated surface with boundary using a variational principle. He then applies this characterization to provide a new parametrization of the Teichmüller space of a hyperbolic surface with nonempty boundary so that the lengths of the boundary components are fixed. In this new parametrization, the Teichmüller space is an open convex polytope. When a sequence of hyperbolic metrics on a surface with boundary converges to a cusped metric, the coordinate introduced in the paper converges to the simplicial coordinate introduced by \textit{R. C. Penner} [Commun. Anal. Geom. 12, 793--820 (2004; Zbl 1072.32008)].




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