Conformal surface embeddings and extremal length

DOI10.4171/GGD/673MaRDI QIDQ6263743arXivFDO

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

Publication date 19 July 2015

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)

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.

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