On normalizations of Thurston measure on the space of measured laminations
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On normalizations of Thurston measure on the space of measured laminations
zbMATH Open document ID: 1432.32013
author: Leonid Monin
author: Vanya Telpukhovskiy
published in: Topology and its Applications
publication date: 2019-10-17T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04533
review text: The space \(\mathcal{ML}(\Sigma)\) of measured laminations of a surface \(\Sigma\) of genus \(g\) with \(n\) punctures is an integral piecewise linear manifold of dimension \(6g-6+2n\). \textit{H. Masur} showed [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 94, 455--459 (1985; Zbl 0579.32035)] that there exists a measure on \(\mathcal{ML}(\Sigma)\), unique up to scaling, which is invariant under the action of the mapping class group. The authors consider two different ways to normalize this measure: the first normalization \(\mu_\omega\) (``the symplectic Thurston measure'') comes from the symplectic form on \(\mathcal{ML}(\Sigma)\) as defined by Thurston, the second normalization \(\mu_{\mathbb{Z}}\) (``the integer Thurston measure'') from the integral affine structure on \(\mathcal{ML}(\Sigma)\) (which is natural for the counting of hyperbolic geodesics and counting problems on the space of quadratic differentials). In the present paper, answering a question of \textit{K. Rafi} and \textit{J. Souto} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 29, No. 3, 871--889 (2019; Zbl 1420.30012)], the authors determine the ratio between these two measures (explicitly, \(\mu_\omega/\mu_\mathbb{Z} = 2^{2g+n-3}\)). As the authors note, this result was obtained independently, by different methods, also by \textit{F. Arana-Herrera} [``Counting square-tiled surfaces with prescribed real and imaginary foliations and connections to Mirzakhani's asymptotics for simple closed hyperbolic geodesics'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1902.05626}] and by \textit{V. Delecroix} et al., [``Masur-Veech volumes, frequencies of simple closed geodesics and intersection numbers of moduli spaces of curves'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1908.08611}].
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 32G15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 30F60
zbMATH DE Number: 7118893
zbMATH Keywords: Thurston measure
zbMATH Keywords: measured laminations
zbMATH Keywords: Teichmüller space
reviewed by: Bruno Zimmermann
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2972734100
arXiv ID: 1902.04533
cites work: Counting square-tiled surfaces with prescribed real and imaginary foliations and connections to Mirzakhani's asymptotics for simple closed hyperbolic geodesics
cites work: The Weil-Petersson and Thurston symplectic forms
cites work: Masur-Veech volumes, frequencies of simple closed geodesics, and intersection numbers of moduli spaces of curves
cites work: Ergodic Actions of the Mapping Class Group
cites work: Growth of the number of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces
cites work: Ergodic Theory of the Earthquake Flow
DOI: 10.1016/J.TOPOL.2019.106878
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