Divergent geodesics in the Universal Teichm\"uller space

arXiv2307.02775MaRDI QIDQ6442789FDOQ6442789

Publication date: 6 July 2023

Abstract: Thurston boundary of the universal Teichm"uller space

T (m a t h b b D)

is the space

P M L_{b d d} (m a t h b b D)

of projective bounded measured laminations of

m a t h b b D

. A geodesic ray in

T (m a t h b b D)

is of generalized Teichm"uller type if it shrinks the vertical foliation of a holomorphic quadratic differential. We provide the first examples of generalized Teichm"uller rays which diverge near Thurston boundary

P L M_{b d d} (m a t h b b D)

. Moreover, for every

k g e q 1

we construct examples of rays with limit sets homeomorphic to

k

-dimensional cubes. For the latter result we utilize the classical Kronecker approximation theorem from number theory which states that if

h e t a_{1}, l d o t s, h e t a_{k}

are rationally independent reals then the sequence

(h e t a_{1} n, l d o t s, h e t a_{k} n)

is dense in the

k

-torus

m a t h b b T^{k}

.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasiconformal mappings in the complex plane (30C62) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60)

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