Decorated Teichmüller theory
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Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to functions of a complex variable (30-02) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15)
Decorated Teichmüller theory was started by the author in his paper [``The decorated Teichmüller space of punctured surfaces, Commun. Math. Phys. 113, 299--339 (1987; Zbl 0642.32012)]. Originally, a decorated surface is a complete hyperbolic surface of finite volume with a nonempty set of cusps and with the choice of a closed horocycle around each cusp. Measuring distances to the distinguished horocycles (which can be regarded as a way of ``measuring distances to the cusps) provides a set coordinates for the set of equivalence classes of such surfaces which turned out to be very useful. More generally, a decoration on a hyperbolic surface can be thought of as a set of real parameters (or even other objects) assigned to cusps or to geodesic boundary components. From the set of equivalence classes of decorated surfaces, one builds a space called decorated Teichmüller space, which typically is a fiber bundle over the classical Teichmüller space. Decorated Teichmüller theory opened a new field of research, with a wide spectrum of applications. The mapping class group acts on decorated Teichmüller space, preserving a cell-decomposition, discovered by Penner using a convex-hull construction in Minkowski space. The cell decomposition also admits a purely combinatorial description using fat graphs. Several important structures on Teichmüller space extend to the decorated version. For instance, the Weil-Petersson Kähler 2-form admits a particularly simple expression, in terms of the so-called \(\lambda\)-length coordinates, which are global affine coordinates for the decorated Teichmüller space (another result of Penner). This has been successfully used in the computation by Penner of Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces. \(\lambda\)-lengths are also useful in infinite dimensions for analyzing homeomorphisms of the circle and the Teichmüller theory of the punctured solenoid. Besides its major impact on classical Teichmüller theory and on moduli spaces, the decorated theory has applications to the study of Thompson groups, to profinite group theory, to nilpotent group theory and to 3-manifold invariants. All these subjects are considered in the book under review. Decorated Teichmüller theory has also interesting relations with algebraic number theory, harmonic analysis, topological and conformal field theories, tropical geometry and cluster algebras. Furthermore, this theory played a major role in the quantization theory of Teichmüller space; it is heavily used in the work of Kashaev on the subject. We note finally that there are recent applications of decorated Teichmüller theory in computational biology (RNA and proteins) which were developed by Penner and collaborators. Decorated Teichmüller theory now, after 25 years of development, is quite mature and it was the right time for the author to produce such a book. This book provides a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the subject and to its major applications. It also contains three appendices on more specialized topics: (A) The geometry of Gauss products, (B) Dual to the Kähler two-form, and (C) Stable curves and screens. Several monographs on Teichmüller theory appeared in print in the last three decades, but most of them (if not all) deal with the analytic aspects of the theory. This book is unique because it concentrates on the combinatorial-topological aspect, an aspect which is now as much important as the analytical one. The book is based on lectures that the author gave at the Center for the Topology and Quantization of Moduli Spaces. The fact that these lectures appear now in print will be of great help for all students and researchers working in the field, and the whole mathematical community will benefit from it. It is very carefully written, and it is now an important part of our mathematical literature.
- The decorated Teichmüller space of punctured surfaces
- Finite dimensional quantum Teichmüller space from the quantum torus at root of unity
- The hyperbolic geometry of Markov's theorem on Diophantine approximation and quadratic forms
- Decorated super-Teichmüller space
- Laminations from the symplectic double
- Relative 2-Segal spaces
- Decorated Teichmüller theory of bordered surfaces
- Coordinates for the moduli space of flat PSL\((2,\mathbb{R})\)-connections
- \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) super-Teichmüller theory
- Presentations of cluster modular groups and generation by cluster Dehn twists
- Stated skein modules of marked 3-manifolds/surfaces, a survey
- Canonical tessellations of decorated hyperbolic surfaces
- Sketch of a program for automorphic functions from universal Teichmüller theory to capture monstrous moonshine
- The Chebyshev-Frobenius homomorphism for stated skein modules of 3-manifolds
- Faithfullness of geometric action of skein algebras
- A note on Penner's cocycle on the fatgraph complex
- Double dimer covers on snake graphs from super cluster expansions
- Ideal hyperbolic polyhedra and discrete uniformization
- Traversing three-manifold triangulations and spines
- Laurent phenomenon algebras arising from surfaces. II: Laminated surfaces
- Algebraic entropy of sign-stable mutation loops
- An expansion formula for decorated super-Teichmüller spaces
- Hyperbolic geometry and closed bosonic string field theory. II: The rules for evaluating the quantum BV master action
- Laurent positivity of quantized canonical bases for quantum cluster varieties from surfaces
- On Kauffman bracket skein modules of marked 3-manifolds and the Chebyshev-Frobenius homomorphism
- Infinite rank surface cluster algebras
- On Ramond decorations
- New trends in Teichmüller theory and mapping class groups. Abstracts from the workshop held September 2--8, 2018
- Quantisation of super Teichmüller theory
- A homology-valued invariant for trivalent fatgraph spines
- Species with potential arising from surfaces with orbifold points of order 2. I: One choice of weights
- On a Nielsen-Thurston classification theory for cluster modular groups
- Centrally extended mapping class groups from quantum Teichmüller theory
- Teichmüller theory of the punctured solenoid
- A TQFT from quantum Teichmüller theory
- Note on character varieties and cluster algebras
- Irreducible self-adjoint representations of quantum Teichmüller space and the phase constants
- Mini-workshop: Scattering amplitudes, cluster algebras, and positive geometries. Abstracts from the mini-workshop held December 5--11, 2021 (hybrid meeting)
- \(\mathrm{SL}_2\) quantum trace in quantum Teichmüller theory via writhe
- Moduli spaces and macromolecules
- Margulis spacetimes via the arc complex
- Ratio coordinates for higher Teichmüller spaces
- Linear difference equations, frieze patterns, and the combinatorial Gale transform
- A Glimpse into Thurston’s Work
- Tropical lambda lengths, measured laminations and convexity
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- A deformation of Penner's simplicial coordinate
- Quantum Teichmüller spaces and quantum trace map
- Cluster Algebras and Triangulated Surfaces Part II: Lambda Lengths
- Products of twists, geodesic lengths and Thurston shears
- Decoupling Decorations on Moduli Spaces of Manifolds
- Hopf algebra gauge theory on a ribbon graph
- Cubical geometry in the polygonalisation complex
- The geometry of flip graphs and mapping class groups
- Fatgraph models of RNA structure
- Secondary fans and secondary polyhedra of punctured Riemann surfaces
- Weakly inscribed polyhedra
- Mutation invariant functions on cluster ensembles
- Matrix formulae for decorated super Teichmüller spaces
- Flat \(GL(1|1)\)-connections and fatgraphs
- Batalin-Vilkovisky structures on moduli spaces of flat connections
- Bers' simultaneous uniformization and the intersection of Poincaré holonomy varieties
- Music of moduli spaces
- A G-equivariant string-net construction
- Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Continuous Metrics on Atomic Clouds of Unordered Points
- Super McShane identity
- The twisted 1-loop invariant and the Jacobian of Ptolemy varieties
- The worst approximable rational numbers
- Stability conditions and Teichmüller space
- Combinatorial 2d higher topological quantum field theory from a local cyclic \(A_{\infty}\) algebra
- Strip deformations of decorated hyperbolic polygons
- Twist numbers on hyperbolic one-holed tori
- A holographic connection between strings and causal diamonds
- Parametrisation of decorated Margulis spacetimes using strip deformations
- All loop scattering as a counting problem
- Skein and cluster algebras with coefficients for unpunctured surfaces
- The infinitesimal and global Thurston geometry of Teichmüller space
- Tropical amplitudes for colored Lagrangians
- Unbounded \(\mathfrak{sl}_3\)-laminations and their shear coordinates
- The Alexandrov theorem for 2+1 flat radiant spacetimes
- Binary quadratic forms: modern developments
- Angle defect for super triangles
- The Fenchel-Nielsen twist in terms of the cross ratio coordinates
- Spinors and horospheres
- Ortho-integral surfaces
- Cluster categories for completed infinity-gons. I: Categorifying triangulations
- Universal spin Teichmüller theory. I: The action of \(\mathrm{P(SL}(2, \mathbb{Z}))\) on \(\mathcal{T}\mathrm{ess}^+\)
- Universal spin Teichmüller theory. II: The action of \(\mathrm{P(SL}(2, \mathbb{Z}))\) on \(\mathcal{T}\mathrm{ess}^+\)
- Quantized geodesic lengths for Teichmüller spaces: algebraic aspects
- Penner's lambda lengths and analogs of Casey's theorem
- Filtered screens and augmented Teichmüller space
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