The Teichmuller Flow is Hamiltonian

DOI10.2307/2161902zbMATH Open0849.32014OpenAlexW4247990197MaRDI QIDQ4874271FDOQ4874271

Authors Howard Masur

Publication date 5 November 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2161902

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian flowRiemann surfacesgeodesic flowquadratic differentialsTeichmüller spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Holomorphic bundles and generalizations (32L05) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30)

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• Effective mapping class group dynamics. I: Counting lattice points in Teichmüller space
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• Pluripotential theory on Teichmüller space I: Pluricomplex Green function
• Extremal length functions are log-plurisubharmonic
• Billiards in Finsler and Minkowski geometries
• Non-convexity of extremal length
• Statistical hyperbolicity in Teichmüller space
• The asymmetry of Thurston's earthquake flow
• Billiards in polygons: Survey of recent results.
• Counting lattice points in moduli spaces of quadratic differentials
• Discretely shrinking targets in moduli space
• Horospheres in Teichmüller space and mapping class group

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