A deformation of Penner's simplicial coordinate

DOI10.4310/JDG/1335207377MaRDI QIDQ431591zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tian Yang

Publication date 28 June 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1615, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1335207377

zbMATH Keywords

decorated Teichmüller spacemapping class groupsimplicial coordinate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60)

Abstract: We produce a one-parameter family of coordinates ${Ps{i}_h}_{hinmathbbR}$ of the decorated Teichm"{u}ller space of an ideally triangulated punctured surface $(S,T)$ with negative Euler characteristic, which is a deformation of Penner's simplicial coordinate cite{P1}. If $hgeqslant0$, the decorated Teichm"{u}ller space in the $Ps{i}_h$ coordinate becomes an explicit convex polytope $P(T)$ independent of $h$, and if $h<0$, the decorated Teichm"{u}ller space becomes an explicit bounded convex polytope $P_h(T)$ so that $P_h(T)subset{P}_{h^{\prime }}(T)$ if $h<h^{\prime }$. As a consequence, Bowditch-Epstein and Penner's cell decomposition of the decorated Teichm"{u}ller space is reproduced.

Review text

\textit{R. C. Penner} [Commun. Math. Phys. 113, 299--339 (1987; Zbl 0642.32012)] introduced the simplicial coordinate for the decorated Teichmüller space as follows: NEWLINENEWLINE\[NEWLINE\Psi(d,r)(e)=\frac{b+c-a}2+\frac{b'+c'-a'}2,NEWLINE\]NEWLINENEWLINEwhere \((d,s)\) is a decorated hyperbolic metric on the triangulated surface \((S,T)\) with negative Euler characteristic, \(e\) is an edge of \(T\) and \(a, b, c, a', b', c'\) are generalized angles of the triangles containing \(e\). NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE \textit{B. H. Bowditch} and \textit{D. B. A. Epstein} [Topology 27, No. 1, 91--117 (1988; Zbl 0649.32017)] and \textit{R. C. Penner} [loc. cit.] showed that the simplicial coordinate \(\Psi\) produces a cell decomposition of the decorated Teichmüller space equivariant under the action of the mapping class group. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE The author of the paper under review discovers a deformation of Penner's simplicial coordinate: for any \(h\in \mathbb{R}\),NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\Psi_h(d,r)(e)=\int_0^{\frac{b+c-a}2}e^{ht^2}+\int_0^{\frac{b'+c'-a'}2}e^{ht^2}.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE It turns out that this deformation is unique up to constants.NEWLINENEWLINEUsing a variational principle, the author proves that \(\Psi_h\) is indeed a coordinate for the decorated Teichmüller space.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE The images of the decorated Teichmüller space under the coordinates \(\Psi_h\) are determined. When \(h\geq 0\), the image is an open convex polytope independent of \(h\). When \(h<0\), the image is a bounded open convex polytope \(P_h(T)\) so that \(P_h(T)\subset P_{h'}(T)\) as \(h<h'\).NEWLINENEWLINEFor \(h\geq 0\), \(\Psi_h\) produces a cell decomposition of the decorated Teichmüller space equivariant under the action of the mapping class group independent of \(h\). This generalizes the result of Bowditch-Epstein and Penner.

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