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A negative answer to Nevanlinna's type question and a parabolic surface with a lot of negative curvature
Author(s):
Itai
Benjamini;
Sergei
Merenkov;
Oded
Schramm
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
132
(2004),
641-647.
MSC (2000):
Primary 14J15, 60J65
Posted:
September 29, 2003
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Abstract:
Consider a simply-connected Riemann surface represented by a Speiser graph. Nevanlinna asked if the type of the surface is determined by the mean excess of the graph: whether mean excess zero implies that the surface is parabolic, and negative mean excess implies that the surface is hyperbolic. Teichmüller gave an example of a hyperbolic simply-connected Riemann surface whose mean excess is zero, disproving the first of these implications. We give an example of a simply-connected parabolic Riemann surface with negative mean excess, thus disproving the other part. We also construct an example of a complete, simply-connected, parabolic surface with nowhere positive curvature such that the integral of curvature in any disk about a fixed basepoint is less than times the area of disk, where is some constant.
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Itai
Benjamini
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Email:
itai@math.weizmann.ac.il
Sergei
Merenkov
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Email:
smerenko@math.purdue.edu
Oded
Schramm
Affiliation:
Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052
Email:
schramm@microsoft.com
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07147-8
PII:
S 0002-9939(03)07147-8
Received by editor(s):
October 17, 2002
Posted:
September 29, 2003
Additional Notes:
The research of the second author was supported by NSF grant DMS-0072197
Dedicated:
In memory of Bob Brooks
Communicated by:
Jozef Dodziuk
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2003,
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