The behaviour of Fenchel-Nielsen distance under a change of pants decomposition

DOI10.4310/CAG.2012.V20.N2.A6zbMATH Open1272.30063arXiv1105.0202MaRDI QIDQ357191FDOQ357191

Authors: Daniele Alessandrini, Lixin Liu, Athanase Papadopoulos, Weixu Su 

Publication date: 30 July 2013

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a topological orientable surface of finite or infinite type equipped with a pair of pants decomposition $mathcalP$ and given a base complex structure $X$ on $S$, there is an associated deformation space of complex structures on $S$, which we call the Fenchel-Nielsen Teichm"uller space associated to the pair $(mathcalP,X)$. This space carries a metric, which we call the Fenchel-Nielsen metric, defined using Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates. We studied this metric in the papers cite{ALPSS}, cite{various} and cite{local}, and we compared it to the classical Teichm"uller metric (defined using quasi-conformal mappings) and to another metric, namely, the length spectrum, defined using ratios of hyperbolic lengths of simple closed curves metric. In the present paper, we show that under a change of pair of pants decomposition, the identity map between the corresponding Fenchel-Nielsen metrics is not necessarily bi-Lipschitz. The results complement results obtained in the previous papers and they show that these previous results are optimal.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0202

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zbMATH Keywords

Fenchel-Nielsen coordinatesFenchel-Nielsen metricpair of pants decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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