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Bounded earthquakes

Author(s): Dragomir Saric
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 889-897.
MSC (2000): Primary 30F60, 30F45, 32H02, 32G05; Secondary 30C62
Posted: November 23, 2007
MathSciNet review: 2361861
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Abstract: We give a short proof of the fact that bounded earthquakes of the unit disk induce quasisymmetric maps of the unit circle. By a similar method, we show that symmetric maps are induced by bounded earthquakes with asymptotically trivial measures.


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Additional Information:

Dragomir Saric
Affiliation: Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3660
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Queens College of CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, New York 11367
Email: saric@math.sunysb.edu, dragomir.saric@qc.cuny.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-07-09146-0
PII: S 0002-9939(07)09146-0
Keywords: Earthquakes, transverse bounded measures, asymptotically trivial measures
Received by editor(s): July 31, 2006
Posted: November 23, 2007
Communicated by: Juha M. Heinonen
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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