From rational billiards to dynamics on moduli spaces

DOI10.1090/BULL/1513MaRDI QIDQ3451244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alex Wright

Publication date 10 November 2015

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.08290

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic geometrydynamicsergodic theorymoduli spacesTeichmüller theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Abstract: This short expository note gives an elementary introduction to the study of dynamics on certain moduli spaces, and in particular the recent breakthrough result of Eskin, Mirzakhani, and Mohammadi. We also discuss the context and applications of this result, and connections to other areas of mathematics such as algebraic geometry, Teichmuller theory, and ergodic theory on homogeneous spaces.

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