The Boundary at Infinity of the Curve Complex and the Relative Teichm\"{u}ller Space

DOI10.4171/GGD/662arXiv1803.10339WikidataQ113692017 ScholiaQ113692017MaRDI QIDQ6299663FDOQ6299663

Authors: Erica Klarreich 

Publication date: 27 March 2018

Abstract: In this paper we study the boundary at infinity of the curve complex $mathcalC(S)$ of a surface $S$ of finite type and the relative Teichm"{u}ller space $mathcal{T}_{el}(S)$ obtained from the Teichm"{u}ller space by collapsing each region where a simple closed curve is short to be a set of diameter 1. $mathcalC(S)$ and $mathcal{T}_{el}(S)$ are quasi-isometric, and Masur-Minsky have shown that $mathcalC(S)$ and $mathcal{T}_{el}(S)$ are hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov. We show that the boundary at infinity of $mathcalC(S)$ and $mathcal{T}_{el}(S)$ is the space of topological equivalence classes of minimal foliations on $S$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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