Relative shapes of thick subsets of moduli space

DOI10.1353/AJM.2016.0010zbMATH Open1342.30044arXiv1306.6146OpenAlexW1828442838MaRDI QIDQ2804443FDOQ2804443

Authors: James W. Anderson, Hugo Parlier, Alexandra Pettet 

Publication date: 29 April 2016

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A closed hyperbolic surface of genus $gge2$ can be decomposed into pairs of pants along shortest closed geodesics and if these curves are sufficiently short (and with lengths uniformly bounded away from 0), then the geometry of the surface is essentially determined by the combinatorics of the pants decomposition. These combinatorics are determined by a trivalent graph, so we call such surfaces {em trivalent}. In this paper, in a first attempt to understand the "shape" of the subset $s$ of moduli space consisting of surfaces whose systoles fill, we compare it metrically, asymptotically in g, with the set $ri$ of trivalent surfaces. As our main result, we find that the set $scapri$ is metrically "sparse" in $s$ (where we equip $moduli$ with either the Thurston or the Teichm"uller metric).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6146

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacehyperbolic surfacepants decompositionthick subsetshortest geodesic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cited In (7)

• Local maxima of the systole function
• The shape of the filling-systole subspace in surface moduli space and critical points of the systole function
• SYSTOLIC FILLINGS OF SURFACES
• EMBEDDING OF METRIC GRAPHS ON HYPERBOLIC SURFACES
• Thin compactifications and relative fundamental classes
• Filling of closed surfaces
• Graphs of systoles on hyperbolic surfaces

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