The Teichmüller flow is Hamiltonian
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Abstract:
It is shown that the Teichmuller flow on the cotangent bundle over Teichmuller space coincides with the Hamiltonian flow defined by the function which gives the length of a cotangent vector.References
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- © Copyright 1995 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123 (1995), 3739-3747
- MSC: Primary 32G15; Secondary 30F60, 58F05
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1995-1283559-2
- MathSciNet review: 1283559