arXiv research

Optimal geodesics connect boundary points in Teichmüller space.

New boundary constructed for mapping class group.

We show that the horofunction compactification of Teichmüller space with the Teichmüller metric is homeomorphic to the Gardiner-Masur compactification.

We study the convergence of earthquake paths and horocycle paths in the Gardiner-Masur compactification of Teichmüller space. We show that an earthquake path directed by a uniquely ergodic or simple closed measured geodesic lamination converges to the Gardiner-Masur boundary. Using the embedding of flat metrics into th…

In this paper, we investigate the structure of the Gardiner-Masur boundary of Teichmuller space. Indeed, we will give a geometric description of boundary comparing to the Duchin-Leininger-Rafi compactification of the space of singular flat structures. We will obtain the coincidence between the Gardiner-Masur boundary a…

We give an example of a horocycle in the Teichmüller space of the five-times-punctured sphere that does not converge in the Gardiner--Masur compactification, or equivalently in the horofunction compactification of the Teichmüller metric. As an intermediate step, we exhibit a simple closed curve whose extremal length is…

We determine the asymptotic behaviour of extremal length along arbitrary Teichmüller rays. This allows us to calculate the endpoint in the Gardiner-Masur boundary of any Teichmüller ray. We give a proof that this compactification is the same as the horofunction compactification. An important subset of the latter is the…

We introduce a deformation of Riemann surfaces and we are interested in the convergence of this deformation to a point of the Gardiner-masur boundary of Teichmueller space. This deformation, which we call the horocyclic deformation, is directed by a projective measured foliation and belongs to a certain horocycle in a …

In this paper, we consider the asymptotic behavior of two Teichmüller geodesic rays determined by Jenkins-Strebel differentials, and we obtain a generalization of a theorem in \cite{Amano14}. We also consider the infimum of the asymptotic distance in shifting base points of the rays along the geodesics. We show that th…

We construct a triangulation of a compactification of the Moduli space of a surface with at least one puncture that is closely related to the Deligne-Mumford compactification. Specifically, there is a surjective map from the compactification we construct to the Deligne-Mumford compactification so that the inverse image…

Extends harmonic maps compactification to punctured Riemann surfaces.

Paper relates new compactification to classical moduli space.

We consider horofunction compactifications of symmetric spaces with respect to invariant Finsler metrics. We show that any (generalized) Satake compactification can be realized as a horofunction compactification with respect to a polyhedral Finsler metric.

Existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics on compactifications of Lie groups.

The horoboundary of Teichmüller space is path connected and has non-dense Busemann points.

Characterizes toroidal and semi-toric compactifications as log minimal models and applies to weak K-moduli.

Satake has constructed compactifications of symmetric spaces D=G/K which (under a condition called geometric rationality by Casselman) yield compactifications of the corresponding locally symmetric spaces. The different compactifications depend on the choice of a representation of G. One example is the Baily-Borel-Sata…

The paper studies compactifications of SL(2,C) character varieties for punctured surfaces.

New coordinates for Teichmüller space compactification.

New compactification for character varieties with good topological properties.

Embeds Higson compactification into adelic solenoids.

We discuss the `hd-compactification' of a semi-simple Lie group to a manifold with corners; it is the real analog of the wonderful compactification of deConcini and Procesi. There is a 1-1 correspondence between the boundary faces of the compactification and conjugacy classes of parabolic subgroups with the boundary fa…

We define a compactification of symmetric spaces of noncompact type, seen as spaces of isometry classes of marked lattices, analogous to the Thurston compactification of the Teichmüller space, and we show that it is equivariantly isomorphic to a Satake compactification. We then use it to define a new compactification o…

We construct several examples of compactifications of Einstein metrics. We show that the Eguchi--Hanson instanton admits a projective compactification which is non--metric, and that a metric cone over any (pseudo)--Riemannian manifolds admits a metric projective compactification. We construct a para--$c$--projective co…

Researchers create a new compactification of character varieties using geometric and algebraic methods.

Paper studies compactifications of Higgs bundles and self-duality equations.

No natural topological compactification for Fulton-MacPherson.

Paper shows geometric properties preserved by compactifications in relation to coarse structures and group actions.

The paper classifies and computes limits of equivariant compactifications of groups.

The study finds only finitely many Kähler-Einstein compactifications for semisimple groups.

The paper extends end concepts to arbitrary groups and spaces.

In this paper we present a topological way of building a compactification of a symmetric space from a compactification of a Weyl Chamber.

To study a noncompact Riemannian manifold, it is often useful to find a compactification. We discuss several common compactifications and survey some recent results.

The group of direct isometries of the real n-dimensional hyperbolic space is G=SOo(n,1). This isometric action admits many differentiable compactifications into an action on the closed ball. We prove that all such compactifications are topologically conjugate but not necessarily differentiably conjugate. We give the cl…

Consider a finite dimensional (generally reducible) polynomial representation ρof GL_n. A projective compactification of GL_n is the closure of ρ(GL_n) in the space of all operators defined up to a factor (this class of spaces can be characterized as equivariant projective normal compactifications of GL_n). We give an …

Schwartz functions smoothly extend to real projective spaces.

We define a new compactification of outer space $CV_N$ (the \emph{Pacman compactification}) which is an absolute retract, for which the boundary is a $Z$-set. The classical compactification $\overline{CV_N}$ made of very small $F_N$-actions on $\mathbb{R}$-trees, however, fails to be locally $4$-connected as soon as $N…

Study on curvature properties and Shafarevich conjecture for complex hyperbolic manifolds.

The arc metric is an asymmetric metric on the Teichm{ü}ller space T(S) of a surface S with nonempty boundary. In this paper we study the relation between Thurston's compactification and the horofunction compactification of T(S) endowed with the arc metric. We prove that there is a natural homeomorphism between the two …

An Alexander self-dual complex gives rise to a compactification of $M_{0,n}$, called ASD compactification, which is a smooth algebraic variety. ASD compactifications include (but are not exhausted by) the polygon spaces, or the moduli spaces of flexible polygons. We present an explicit description of the Chow rings of …

The paper solves a geometric P=W conjecture for SL(2,C) using Thurston's compactification.

Any nonpositively curved symmetric space admits a topological compactification, namely the Hadamard compactification. For rank one spaces, this topological compactification can be endowed with a differentiable structure such that the action of the isometry group is differentiable. Moreover, the restriction of the actio…

Geometric compactification for complex structures on Lie groups.

The Thurston compactification of Teichmuller spaces has been generalized to many different representation spaces by J. Morgan, P. Shalen, M. Bestvina, F. Paulin, A. Parreau and others. In the simplest case of representations of fundamental groups of closed hyperbolic surfaces in PSL(2,R), we prove that this compactific…

The paper compactifies stability conditions on curves, akin to Teichmüller theory.

The paper studies horofunction compactifications of symmetric cones under Finsler distances.

We compare two combinatorial models for the moduli space of two-dimensional cobordisms: Bödigheimer's radial slit configurations and Godin's admissible fat graphs, producing an explicit homotopy equivalence using a "critical graph" map. We also discuss natural compactifications of these two models, the unilevel harmoni…

We study the number of distinct ways in which a smooth projective surface $X$ can be realized as a smooth toroidal compactification of a ball quotient. It follows from work of Hirzebruch that there are infinitely many distinct ball quotients with birational smooth toroidal compactifications. We take this to its natural…