The Schwarzian derivative and measured laminations on Riemann surfaces
The Schwarzian derivative and measured laminations on Riemann surfaces
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DOI:
10.1215/s0012-7094-07-14021-3
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发表时间:
2005-10
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2.5
通讯作者:
D. Dumas
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作者:
D. Dumas
A holomorphic quadratic differential on a hyperbolic Rie- mann surface has an associated measured foliation, which can be straight- ened to yield a measured geodesic lamination. On the other hand, a quadratic differential can be considered as the Schwarzian derivative of a 1 structure, to which one can naturally associate another measured geodesic lamination using grafting. We compare these two relationships between quadratic differentials and measured geodesic laminations, each of which yields a homeomor- phism ML(S) ! Q(X) for each conformal structure X on a compact surface S. We show that these maps are nearly the same, differing by a multiplicative factor of 2 and an error term of lower order than the maps themselves (which we bound explicitly). As an application we show that the Schwarzian derivative of a 1 structure with Fuchsian holonomy is close to a 2�-integral Jenkins- Strebel differential. We also study compactifications of the space of 1 structures using the Schwarzian derivative and grafting coordinates; we show that the natural map between these extends to the boundary of each fiber over Teichmuller space, and we describe this extension.