A series associated to generating pairs of a once punctured torus group and a proof of McShane's identity

DOI10.32917/HMJ/1301586287MaRDI QIDQ717676zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Toshihiro Nakanishi

Publication date 5 October 2011

Published in Hiroshima Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.32917/hmj/1301586287

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic geometryMcShane identitysimple closed geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Review text

In his paper [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 36, No. 2, 181--187 (2004; Zbl 1052.57021)], \textit{G. McShane} proved that for any finite-area hyperbolic metric on a punctured torus, one has the following identity: \[ \sum_{\gamma}\arcsin \left(\frac{1}{\cosh(|\gamma|/2)}\right)=\pi/2 \] where the sum is taken over all simple closed geodesics passing through a fixed pair of Weierstrass points. In the paper under review, the author provides a new proof of this identity based on an investigation of the arrangement of axes of simple hyperbolic elements in a once-punctured torus-group which are represented by palindromic words. The author's argument also includes a short proof of the fact that the linear measure of the infinitesimal Birman-Series set is zero.

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