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On the topology defined by Thurston's asymmetric metric

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2007

ATHANASE PAPADOPOULOS  and
GUILLAUME THÉRET
ATHANASE PAPADOPOULOS
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université Louis Pasteur and CNRS, 7 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex - France. e-mail: papadopoulos@math.u-strasbg.fr, theret@math.u-strasbg.fr
GUILLAUME THÉRET
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université Louis Pasteur and CNRS, 7 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex - France. e-mail: papadopoulos@math.u-strasbg.fr, theret@math.u-strasbg.fr
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Abstract

We establish some properties of Thurston's asymmetric metric L on the Teichmüller space of a surface of genus with punctures and with negative Euler characteristic. We study convergence of sequences of elements in in the sense of L, as well as sequences that tend to infinity in . We show that the topology that the asymmetric metric L induces on Teichmüller space is the same as the usual topology. Furthermore, we show that L satisfies the axioms of a (not necessarily symmetric) metric in the sense of Busemann and conclude that L is complete in the sense of Busemann.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 142 , Issue 3 , May 2007 , pp. 487 - 496
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2007

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