Lengths of simple loops on surfaces with hyperbolic metrics

dc.creatorLuo, Feng
dc.creatorStong, Richard
dc.date2002-11-27
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dc.descriptionGiven a compact orientable surface of negative Euler characteristic, there exists a natural pairing between the Teichmueuller space of the surface and the set of homotopy classes of simple loops and arcs. The length pairing sends a hyperbolic metric and a homotopy class of a simple loop or arc to the length of geodesic in its homotopy class. We study this pairing function using the Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates on Teichmueller space and the Dehn-Thurston coordinates on the space of homotopy classes of curve systems. Our main result establishes Lipschitz type estimates for the length pairing expressed in terms of these coordinates. As a consequence, we reestablish a result of Thurston-Bonahon that the length pairing extends to a continuous map from the product of the Teichmueller space and the space of measured laminations.
dc.descriptionPublished by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol6/paper17.abs.html
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211421
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211421
dc.identifierGeom. Topol. 6(2002) 495-521
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/65808
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subject30F60, 57M50, 57N16
dc.titleLengths of simple loops on surfaces with hyperbolic metrics
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