Relative shapes of thick subsets of moduli space
Relative shapes of thick subsets of moduli space
A closed hyperbolic surface of genus g ≥ 2 can be decomposed into pairs of pants along shortest closed geodesics and if these curves are sufficiently short (and with lengths uniformly bounded away from 0), then the geometry of the surface is essentially determined by the combinatorics of the pants decomposition. These combinatorics are determined by a trivalent graph, so we call such surfaces trivalent. In this paper, in a first attempt to understand the "shape" of the subset Xg of moduli space consisting of surfaces whose systoles fill, we compare it metrically, asymptotically in g, with the set Yg of trivalent surfaces. As our main result, we find that the set Xg∩Yg is metrically "sparse" in Xg (where we equip Mg with either the Thurston or the Teichmuller metric).
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Anderson, James W.
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Parlier, Hugo
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Pettet, Alexandra
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2016
Anderson, James W.
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Parlier, Hugo
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Pettet, Alexandra
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Anderson, James W., Parlier, Hugo and Pettet, Alexandra
(2016)
Relative shapes of thick subsets of moduli space.
American Journal of Mathematics, 138 (2), .
(doi:10.1353/ajm.2016.0010).
Abstract
A closed hyperbolic surface of genus g ≥ 2 can be decomposed into pairs of pants along shortest closed geodesics and if these curves are sufficiently short (and with lengths uniformly bounded away from 0), then the geometry of the surface is essentially determined by the combinatorics of the pants decomposition. These combinatorics are determined by a trivalent graph, so we call such surfaces trivalent. In this paper, in a first attempt to understand the "shape" of the subset Xg of moduli space consisting of surfaces whose systoles fill, we compare it metrically, asymptotically in g, with the set Yg of trivalent surfaces. As our main result, we find that the set Xg∩Yg is metrically "sparse" in Xg (where we equip Mg with either the Thurston or the Teichmuller metric).
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Submitted date: 26 June 2013
Accepted/In Press date: 19 August 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 2016
Published date: 2016
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