Cusps are dense (Q2639196)

In this remarkable paper it is shown that maximal cusps are dense in Bers' boundary for Teichmüller space. The density of cusps was conjectured by Bers in 1970. The proof rests on an estimate for the algebraic change in a quasifuchsian group due to the unit quasiconformal deformation concentrated in the thin part of the quotient Riemann surface. A maximal cusp is uniquely determined by the system of simple closed curves which is pinched. Hence the result is a first step towards a combinatorial description of the boundary.