Length of a curve is quasi-convex along a Teichmüller geodesic

DOI10.4310/JDG/1320067648MaRDI QIDQ664889zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Anna Lenzhen, Kasra Rafi

Publication date 3 March 2012

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3939, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1320067648

zbMATH Keywords

extremal lengthhyperbolic lengthTeichmüller spaceTeichmüller geodesic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60)

Abstract: We show that for every simple closed curve alpha, the extremal length and the hyperbolic length of alpha are quasi-convex functions along any Teichmuller geodesic. As a corollary, we conclude that, in Teichmuller space equipped with the Teichmuller metric, balls are quasi- convex.

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