On the Existence of Jenkins-Strebel Differentials Using Harmonic Maps from Surfaces to Graphs

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Authors Michael Wolf

Publication date 21 August 1996

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9406003, https://eudml.org/doc/223173, http://www.emis.de/journals/AASF/Vol20/vol20.html

zbMATH Keywords

Jenkins-Strebel differential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extremal problems for conformal and quasiconformal mappings, variational methods (30C70) Extremal problems for conformal and quasiconformal mappings, other methods (30C75) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: We give a new proof of the existence (cite{HM}, cite{Ren}) of a Jenkins-Strebel differential $Phi$ on a Riemann surface $SR$ with prescribed heights of cylinders by considering the harmonic map from $SR$ to the leaf space of the vertical foliation of $Phi$, thought of as a Riemannian graph. The novelty of the argument is that it is essentially Riemannian as well as elementary; moreover, the harmonic maps existence theory on which it relies is classical, due mostly to Morrey (cite{Mo}).

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