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The paper generalizes Thurston's earthquake map to cluster algebras of finite type.

Paper defines and studies measures related to earthquakes and best Lipschitz maps.

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

Proof of Thurston's earthquake theorem using Anti-de Sitter geometry.

A measured laminations on the universal hyperbolic solenoid $§$ is, by our definition, a leafwise measured lamination with appropriate continuity for the transverse variations. An earthquakes on theuniversal hyperbolic solenoid $§$ is uniquely determined by a measured lamination on $§$; it is a leafwise earthquake with…

This paper adapts Thurston's earthquake metric to Riemann surfaces with marked points.

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

Extends earthquake and horocycle flows to new measures.

Let $\cT$ be Teichmüller space of a closed surface of genus at least 2. For any point $c\in \cT$, we describe an action of the circle on $\cT\times \cT$, which limits to the earthquake flow when one of the parameters goes to a measured lamination in the Thurston boundary of $\cT$. This circle action shares some of the …

Unique geodesics selected by energy minimization in Teichmüller space.

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…

We give a short proof of the fact that bounded earthquakes of the unit disk induce quasisymmetric maps of the unit circle. By a similar method, we show that symmetric maps are induced by bounded earthquakes with asymptotically trivial measures.

Method computes centers of Poisson and skein algebras for loops on surfaces.

The Teichmuller unipotent flow can be defined concretely on certain moduli spaces of singular flat surfaces by shearing polygonal presentations of the surfaces. Thurston's earthquake flow on moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces is more mysterious. Both flows have deep and important connections to other areas of mathema…

Continuity of earthquake flow map transfers Teichmüller dynamics results.

For a compact surface $X_0$, Thurston introduced a compactification of its Teichmüller space $\mathcal T(X_0)$ by completing it with a boundary $\mathcal{PML}(X_0)$ consisting of projective measured geodesic laminations. We introduce a similar bordification for the Teichmüller space $\mathcal T(X_0)$ of a noncompact Ri…

Deviance Voronoi residuals improve earthquake insurance risk assessment.

The landslide flow, introduced in [5], is a smoother analog of the earthquake flow on Teichmüller space which shares some of its key properties. We show here that further properties of earthquakes apply to landslides. The landslide flow is the Hamiltonian flow of a convex function. The smooth grafting map $sgr$ taking …

A Lie bracket defined on the linear span of the free homotopy classes of undirected closed curves was discovered in stages passing through Thurston's earthquake deformations, Wolpert's corresponding calculations with Hamiltonian vector fields and Goldman's algebraic treatment of the latter leading to a Lie bracket on t…

Geodesic envelopes stay uniformly bounded in specific Teichmüller spaces.

Developed theory for Thurston maps with a small set of essential singularities.

A bijection preserving horocycles/hypercycles is an isometry in hyperbolic plane.

In earlier work, we had shown that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for Kleinian surface groups. In this paper we prove that pre-images of points are precisely end-points of leaves of the ending lamination whenever the Cannon-Thurston map is not one-to-one. In particular, the Cannon-Thurston map is finite-to-one. This comple…

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

Unified proof of Nielsen-Thurston classification via Teichmüller's theorem.

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

We show that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for degenerate free groups without parabolics, i.e. for handlebody groups. Combining these techniques with earlier work proving the existence of Cannon-Thurston maps for surface groups, we show that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for arbitrary finitely generated Kleinian groups witho…

We study the volume of maximal globally hyperbolic Anti-de Sitter manifolds containing a closed orientable Cauchy surface $S$, in relation to some geometric invariants depending only on the two points in Teichmüller space of $S$ provided by Mess' parameterization - namely on two isotopy classes of hyperbolic metrics $h…

Study earthquake deformations on a once-punctured torus.

Constructs a universal Cannon-Thurston map for a new curve complex.

The Teichmüller space $\mathcal{T}_S(\mathbf{b})$ of hyperbolic metrics on a surface $S$ with fixed lengths at the boundary components is symplectic. We prove that any sum of infinitesimal earthquakes on $S$ that is tangent to $\mathcal{T}_S(\mathbf{b})$ is Hamiltonian, by providing a Hamiltonian $\mathbb{L}$. Such fun…

A Thurston map is a branched covering map from $§^2$ to $§^2$ with a finite postcritical set. We associate a natural Gromov hyperbolic graph $\G=\G(f,\mathcal C)$ with an expanding Thurston map $f$ and a Jordan curve $\mathcal C$ on $§^2$ containing $\post(f)$. The boundary at infinity of $\G$ with associated visual me…

Deep neural networks predict earthquake locations with high accuracy.

Paper shows mapping class group-equivariant Teichmüller space deformation to Thurston spine.

Computes minimal dilatation for Thurston maps on surfaces.

Study shows house buyers in Christchurch value earthquake risk differently based on time since 2011 quake.

Study finds both existence and non-existence of maps in Morse boundaries.

Modernizes Thurston's proof of entropy theorem for traintrack maps.

In this paper we study the typical speed of a generic earthquake trajectory leaving compact sets in the moduli space of the once-punctured torus. Mirzakhani showed that the earthquake flow is measurably equivalent to the horocyclic flow, which has been studied extensively. Our main result shows that the earthquake flow…

New maps connect universal circles to ideal sphere for hyperbolic manifolds.

We prove that the bijective correspondence between the space of bounded measured laminations $ML_b(\mathbb{H})$ and the universal Teichmüller space $T(\mathbb{H})$ given by $λ\mapsto E^λ|_{S^1}$ is a homeomorphism for the Fréchet topology on $ML_b(\mathbb{H})$ and the Teichmüller topology on $T(\mathbb{H})$, where $E^λ…

EQShapelets detect earthquakes with high accuracy and interpretability.

Fixed points found in Teichmüller space via anti-de Sitter geometry.

We establish basic geometric and topological properties of Thurston's Master Teapot and the Thurston set for superattracting unimodal self-maps of intervals. In particular, the Master Teapot is connected, contains the unit cylinder, and its intersection with a set $\mathbb{D} \times \{c\}$ grows monotonically with $c$.…

The paper studies pseudo-Anosov maps from typical Thurston constructions.

Proofs non-realizability of mapping class group via homeomorphisms, resolves Thurston's conjecture.

In earlier work, we had shown that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for Kleinian punctured surface groups without accidental parabolics. In this note we prove that pre-images of points are precisely end-points of leaves of the ending lamination whenever the Cannon-Thurston map is not one-to-one. This extends earlier work don…

We demonstrate that the question whether or not a given postcritically finite topological ramified covering map of the 2-sphere is Thurston equivalent to a rational map is algorithmically decidable.