Top terms of polynomial traces in Kra's plumbing construction

DOI10.2140/AGT.2010.10.1565MaRDI QIDQ986677zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sara Maloni, Caroline Series

Publication date 11 August 2010

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.2515

zbMATH Keywords

projective structureKleinian groupDehn-Thurston coordinatesplumbing constructiontrace polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40)

Abstract: Let $Sigma$ be a surface of negative Euler characteristic together with a pants decomposition $P$. Kra's plumbing construction endows $Sigma$ with a projective structure as follows. Replace each pair of pants by a triply punctured sphere and glue, or `plumb', adjacent pants by gluing punctured disk neighbourhoods of the punctures. The gluing across the $i^{th}$ pants curve is defined by a complex parameter $a{u}_{i}inC$. The associated holonomy representation $ho:p{i}_1(Sigma)oPSL(2,C)$ gives a projective structure on $Sigma$ which depends holomorphically on the $a{u}_i$. In particular, the traces of all elements $ho(gamma),gammainp{i}_1(Sigma)$, are polynomials in the $a{u}_i$. Generalising results proved in previous papers for the once and twice punctured torus respectively, we prove a formula giving a simple linear relationship between the coefficients of the top terms of $ho(gamma)$, as polynomials in the $a{u}_i$, and the Dehn-Thurston coordinates of $gamma$ relative to $P$. This will be applied elsewhere to give a formula for the asymptotic directions of pleating rays in the Maskit embedding of $Sigma$ as the bending measure tends to zero.

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