Classification of Weil-Petersson isometries

DOI10.1353/AJM.2003.0023zbMATH Open1043.32007arXivmath/0208010OpenAlexW2065472085MaRDI QIDQ4454890FDOQ4454890

Georgios D. Daskalopoulos, Richard A. Wentworth

Publication date: 8 March 2004

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper contains two main results. The first is the existence of an equivariant Weil-Petersson geodesic in Teichmueller space for any choice of pseudo-Anosov mapping class. As a consequence one obtains a classification of the elements of the mapping class group as Weil-Petersson isometries which is parallel to the Thurston classification. The second result concerns the asymptotic behavior of these geodesics. It is shown that geodesics that are equivariant with respect to independent pseudo-Anosov's diverge. It follows that subgroups of the mapping class group which contain independent pseudo-Anosov's act in a reductive manner with respect to the Weil-Petersson geometry. This implies an existence theorem for equivariant harmonic maps to the metric completion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0208010

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zbMATH Keywords

Weil-Petersson metricmeasured foliationmapping classtranslation lengthThurston classificationTeichmüller space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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