Measuring pants

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8893zbMATH Open1526.32004arXiv2002.02738OpenAlexW4315785428MaRDI QIDQ6135800FDOQ6135800

Authors: Hugo Parlier, Ser Peow Tan 

Publication date: 28 August 2023

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

Abstract: We investigate the terms arising in an identity for hyperbolic surfaces proved by Luo and Tan, namely showing that they vary monotonically in terms of lengths and that they verify certain convexity properties. Using these properties, we deduce two results. As a first application, we show how to deduce a theorem of Thurston which states, in particular for closed hyperbolic surfaces, that if a simple length spectrum "dominates" another, then in fact the two surfaces are isometric. As a second application, we show how to find upper bounds on the number of pairs of pants of bounded length that only depend on the boundary length and the topology of the surface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02738

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic surfacespairs of pantsgeometric identities

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) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

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• Geometry and spectra of compact Riemann surfaces
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• Simple geodesics and a series constant over Teichmüller space
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• Orthospectra of geodesic laminations and dilogarithm identities on moduli space
• A dilogarithm identity on moduli spaces of curves
• Identities on hyperbolic manifolds
• McShane-type identities for affine deformations
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