Tropical lambda lengths, measured laminations and convexity

DOI10.4310/JDG/1367438652MaRDI QIDQ351233zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Robert Penner

Publication date 11 July 2013

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2693, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1367438652

zbMATH Keywords

convexitymeasured laminationsThurston's boundarytropical lambda lengthsdecorated Teichmüller theorydecorated Teichmüller spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60)

Abstract: This work uncovers the tropical analogue for measured laminations of the convex hull construction of decorated Teichmueller theory, namely, it is a study in coordinates of geometric degeneration to a point of Thurston's boundary for Teichmueller space. This may offer a paradigm for the extension of the basic cell decomposition of Riemann's moduli space to other contexts for general moduli spaces of flat connections on a surface. In any case, this discussion drastically simplifies aspects of previous related studies as is explained. Furthermore, a new class of measured laminations relative to an ideal cell decomposition of a surface is discovered in the limit. Finally, the tropical analogue of the convex hull construction in Minkowski space is formulated as an explicit algorithm that serially simplifies a triangulation with respect to a fixed lamination and has its own independent applications.

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