Grafting, pruning, and the antipodal map on measured laminations

dc.creatorDumas, David
dc.date2005-01-13
dc.date2006-12-05
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:39:17Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:39:17Z
dc.descriptionGrafting a measured lamination on a hyperbolic surface defines a self-map of Teichmuller space, which is a homeomorphism by a result of Scannell and Wolf. In this paper we study the large-scale behavior of pruning, which is the inverse of grafting. Specifically, for each conformal structure $X \in \T(S)$, pruning $X$ gives a map $\ML(S) \to \T(S)$. We show that this map extends to the Thurston compactification of $\T(S)$, and that its boundary values are the natural antipodal involution relative to $X$ on the space of projective measured laminations. We use this result to study Thurston's grafting coordinates on the space of $\CP^1$ structures on $S$. For each $X \in \T(S)$, we show that the boundary of the space $P(X)$ of $\CP^1$ structures on $X$ in the compactification of the grafting coordinates is the graph $Γ(i_X)$ of the antipodal involution $i_X : \PML(S) \to \PML(S)$.
dc.description25 pages, 4 figures; includes important corrections in sections 9 and 10
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501194
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501194
dc.identifierJ. Differential Geometry, 74 (2006), 93-118
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/101019
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subject30F60; 53C43
dc.titleGrafting, pruning, and the antipodal map on measured laminations
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