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Thurston's weak metric on the Teichmüller space of the torus

Author(s): Abdelhadi Belkhirat; Athanase Papadopoulos; Marc Troyanov
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357 (2005), 3311-3324.
MSC (2000): Primary 30F60, 32G15
Posted: February 4, 2005
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Abstract: We define and study a natural weak metric on the Teichmüller space of the torus. A similar metric has been defined by W. Thurston on the Teichmüller space of higher genus surfaces and our definition is motivated by Thurston's definition. However, we shall see that in the case of the torus, this metric has a different behaviour than on higher genus surfaces.

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Abdelhadi Belkhirat
Affiliation: Département de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université Louis Pasteur and CNRS, 7 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
Address at time of publication: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Hail Community College, P.O. Box 2440, Hail, Saudi Arabia
Email: belkhirat@math.u-strasbg.fr, belkhirat@hcc.kfupm.edu.sa

Athanase Papadopoulos
Affiliation: Département de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université Louis Pasteur and CNRS, 7 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
Email: papadopoulos@math.u-strasbg.fr

Marc Troyanov
Affiliation: Section de Mathématiques, École Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Email: marc.troyanov@epfl.ch

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-05-03735-9
PII: S 0002-9947(05)03735-9
Keywords: Teichm\"uller space, Teichm\"uller metric, Thurston metric, nonsymmetric metric, weak metric, hyperbolic plane, quasi-isometry
Received by editor(s): February 3, 2004
Posted: February 4, 2005
Copyright of article: Copyright 2005, American Mathematical Society

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