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

DOI10.4171/GGD/662MaRDI QIDQ6299663arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Erica Klarreich

Publication date 27 March 2018

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)

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 $S$.

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