arXiv research

Generalizes Thurston's asymmetric metric to flat metrics.

New metrics for Anosov representations defined from Thurston's asymmetric metrics.

Extends metric to Margulis spacetimes for convex properties.

We highlight several analogies between the Finsler (infinitesimal) properties of Teichmüller's metric and Thurston's asymmetric metric on Teichmüller space. Thurston defined his asymmetric metric in analogy with Teichmüllers' metric, as a solution to an extremal problem, which consists, in the case of the asymmetric me…

New separation concepts for Anosov representations help bound Thurston asymmetric metric.

The paper describes geometric properties of Teichmüller space metrics.

The aim of this paper is to relate Thurston's metric on Teichmüller space to several ideas initiated by T. Sorvali on isomorphisms between Fuchsian groups. In particular, this will give a new formula for Thurston's asymmetric metric for surfaces with punctures. We also update some results of Sorvali on boundary isomorp…

Study on earthquake metric on Teichmüller space, proving properties and new completions.

We study the action of the elements of the mapping class group of a surface of finite type on the Teichmüller space of that surface equipped with Thurston's asymmetric metric. We classify such actions as elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic and pseudo-hyperbolic, depending on whether the translation distance of such an elem…

New metrics derived from Hölder distortion on Hitchin components.

We show that the length function of a measured geodesic lamination is convex in Thurston's shear coordinates over Teichmüller space and strictly convex for generic laminations. We give some consequences of this result in the context of Thurston's asymmetric metric on Teichmüller space.

The Teichmüller space $\mathcal{T}(Σ)$ of a surface $Σ$ is equipped with Thurston's asymmetric metric. Stretch lines are oriented geodesics for this metric on $\mathcal{T}(Σ)$. We give the asymptotic behavior of the lengths of the measured geodesic laminations as one follows a stretch line in the positive direction.

The paper defines a metric on Euclidean triangles and polygons, proving properties and completeness.

We study the geometry of hyperbolic cone surfaces, possibly with cusps or geodesic boundaries. We prove that any hyperbolic cone structure on a surface of non-exceptional type is determined up to isotopy by the geodesic lengths of a finite specific homotopy classes of non-peripheral simple closed curves. As an applicat…

On a convex body in a Euclidean space, we introduce a new variational formulation for its Funk metric, a Finsler metric compatible with the tautological Finsler structure of the convex body. We generalize the metric on Teichmuller spaces with the Weil-Petersson distance function. A set of similarities the resulting met…

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 …

New geodesics for surfaces with boundary, extending Thurston's work.

Describes envelopes of Thurston metric on Teichmüller space.

New metric on geodesic currents connects different surface genera.

Two flexible, degenerate constructions related to Thurston's theorem.

Geodesic envelopes stay uniformly bounded in specific Teichmüller spaces.

The present paper is composed of two parts. In the first one we define two pseudo-metrics $L_F$ and $K_F$ on the Teichmuüller space of semi-translation surfaces $\mathcal{TQ}_g(\underline k,ε)$, which are the symmetric counterparts to the metrics defined by William Thurston on $\mathcal{T}_g^n$. We prove some nice prop…

Maps and measures on surfaces link best Lipschitz and least gradient functions.

Maps between acute triangles with minimal stretch found and studied.

In the Teichmüller space of a hyperbolic surface of finite type, we construct geodesic lines for Thurston's asymmetric metric having the property that when they are traversed in the reverse direction, they are also geodesic lines (up to reparametrization). The lines we construct are special stretch lines in the sense o…

The earthquake flow is asymmetric and cannot be extended to an SL(2,R) action.

For a finitely generated group $G$, we introduce an asymmetric pseudometric on projectivized deformation spaces of $G$-trees, using stretching factors of $G$-equivariant Lipschitz maps, that generalizes the Lipschitz metric on Outer space and is an analogue of the Thurston metric on Teichmüller space. We show that in t…

Study of geometric analysis on asymmetric metric spaces, including heat flow and Sobolev spaces.

Survey on Thurston metric on Teichmüller space, focusing on extremal maps.

This work describes compactifications of metric spaces and vector spaces using asymmetric norms.

Study on Vaisman metrics on Kodaira-Thurston surface using pluriclosed flow.

Teichmüller space rigidity proven for Thurston metric.

This paper studies gradient flows in asymmetric metric spaces and proves existence results.

This survey is an introduction to the geometry of co-Minkowksi space, the space of unoriented spacelike hyperplanes of the Minkowski space. Affine deformations of cocompact lattices of hyperbolic isometries act on it, in a way similar to the way that quasi-Fuchsian groups act on hyperbolic space. In particular, there i…

Study of infinity in Teichmüller space using Thurston boundary.

Study of Teichmüller space geometry using infinitesimal and global methods.

The paper studies maximal stretch and Lipschitz maps on negatively curved manifolds.

We quantitatively relate the Patterson-Sullivant currents and generic stretching factors for free group automorphisms to the asymmetric Lipschitz metric on Outer space and to Guirardel's intersection number.

We study Thurston's Lipschitz and curve metrics, as well as the arc metric on the Teichmueller space of one-hold tori equipped with complete hyperbolic metrics with boundary holonomy of fixed length. We construct natural Lipschitz maps between two surfaces equipped with such hyperbolic metrics that generalize Thurston'…

Uniformly finite Cannon--Thurston fibers in most hyperbolic settings.

Paper proves rigidity theorems for geodesically reversible Finsler metrics.

We show that the horofunction boundary of Teichmüller space with Thurston's Lipschitz metric is the same as the Thurston boundary. We use this to determine the isometry group of the Lipschitz metric, apart from in some exceptional cases. We also show that the Teichmüller spaces of different surfaces, when endowed with …

New asymmetric metric on Teichmüller space for surfaces.

Using the identification of the symmetric space $\mathrm{SL}(n,\mathbb{R})/\mathrm{SO}(n)$ with the Teichmüller space of flat $n$-tori of unit volume, we explore several metrics and compactifications of these spaces, drawing inspiration both from Teichmüller theory and symmetric spaces. We define and study analogs of t…

New Einstein metrics found on complex manifolds.

Survey on four-dimensional Thurston geometries with Riemannian metrics.

In the asymmetric setting, Hilbert's fourth problem asks to construct and study all (non-reversible) projective Finsler metrics: Finsler metrics defined on open, convex subsets of real projective $n$-space for which geodesics lie on projective lines. While asymmetric norms and Funk metrics provide many examples of esse…

Abstract notes on hyperbolic surfaces and Teichmüller spaces.