From rubber bands to rational maps: a research report

DOI10.1186/s40687-015-0039-4zbMath1360.37119arXiv1502.02561OpenAlexW3098191250WikidataQ59478733 ScholiaQ59478733MaRDI QIDQ296218

Dylan P. Thurston

Publication date: 15 June 2016

Published in: Research in the Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02561

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann surfacescomplex dynamicsextremal lengthDirichlet energyrational mapsmeasured foliationselastic graphssurface embeddings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Quasiconformal mappings in the complex plane (30C62) Combinatorics and topology in relation with holomorphic dynamical systems (37F20)

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The holomorphic couch theorem ⋮ On elastic graph spines associated to quadratic Thurston maps ⋮ McShane Identities for Higher Teichmüller Theory and the Goncharov–Shen Potential ⋮ A positive characterization of rational maps ⋮ Algorithmic aspects of branched coverings ⋮ The shape of Thurston's master teapot ⋮ ELASTIC GRAPHS ⋮ The W. Thurston algorithm applied to real polynomial maps ⋮ Conformal surface embeddings and extremal length ⋮ From curves to currents ⋮ Continuity of core entropy of quadratic polynomials

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