Higher derivatives of length functions along earthquake deformations

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1434731931MaRDI QIDQ494159zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Bridgeman

Publication date 31 August 2015

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2935, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.mmj/1434731931

zbMATH Keywords

earthquake deformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15)

Abstract: We calculate the higher derivatives of length functions on Teichmuller space along earthquake deformations. This generalizes the cosine formula for the first derivative by Kerckhoff and Wolpert and the sine formula for second derivative by Wolpert.

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