Products of twists, geodesic lengths and Thurston shears

DOI10.1112/S0010437X1400757XMaRDI QIDQ4982979zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Scott A. Wolpert

Publication date 13 April 2015

Published in Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0199

zbMATH Keywords

Fock shear coordinate algebrageodesic-length functionsshear deformationsTeichmüller spacetwist deformationsWeil-Petersson geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30)

Abstract: Thurston introduced shear deformations (cataclysms) on geodesic laminations - deformations including left and right displacements along geodesics. For hyperbolic surfaces with cusps, we consider shear deformations on disjoint unions of ideal geodesics. The length of a balanced weighted sum of ideal geodesics is defined and the Weil-Petersson (WP) duality of shears and the defined length is established. The Poisson bracket of a pair of balanced weight systems on a set of disjoint ideal geodesics is given in terms of an elementary 2-form. The symplectic geometry of balanced weight systems on ideal geodesics is developed. Equality of the Fock shear coordinate algebra and the WP Poisson algebra is established. The formula for the WP Riemannian pairing of shears is also presented.

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