Conformal surface embeddings and extremal length

DOI10.4171/GGD/673arXiv1507.05294MaRDI QIDQ6263743FDOQ6263743

Dylan P. Thurston, Jeremy Kahn, Kevin M. Pilgrim

Publication date: 19 July 2015

Abstract: Given two Riemann surfaces with boundary and a homotopy class of topological embeddings between them, there is a conformal embedding in the homotopy class if and only if the extremal length of every simple multi-curve is decreased under the embedding. Furthermore, the homotopy class has a conformal embedding that misses an open disk if and only if extremal lengths are decreased by a definite ratio. This ratio remains bounded away from one under covers.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15)

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