The paper generalizes Thurston's earthquake map to cluster algebras of finite type.
problem Tackling Thurston's earthquake map in the context of cluster algebras of finite type.
method Introducing a cluster algebraic generalization of Thurston's earthquake map, defined by gluing exponential maps.
result Proves an analogue of the earthquake theorem for cluster algebras of finite type, showing the cluster earthquake map is a homeomorphism.
Paper defines and studies measures related to earthquakes and best Lipschitz maps.
problem Understanding Thurston's conjecture about maps and measures on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Examining Lie algebra valued transverse measures and their relation to earthquakes.
result Defines and shows correspondence between best Lipschitz maps and earthquakes.
The earthquake flow is asymmetric and cannot be extended to an SL(2,R) action.
problem The asymmetry of Thurston's earthquake flow and its implications.
method Analysis of orbifold automorphisms and measured geodesic laminations.
result The earthquake flow does not extend to an SL(2,R) action and lacks continuous self-symmetries.
Proof of Thurston's earthquake theorem using Anti-de Sitter geometry.
problem Proving Thurston's earthquake theorem for orientation-preserving homeomorphisms.
method Using the bi-invariant geometry of Anti-de Sitter three-space.
result Provided a proof of Thurston's earthquake theorem.
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.
problem Defining a norm and metric on Teichmüller spaces for surfaces of arbitrary genus.
method Adapting Thurston's earthquake norm to Riemann surfaces with marked points and using complex Legendre transforms.
result Establishes a complete analogue of Thurston's earthquake norm in the conformal setting.
Study on earthquake metric on Teichmüller space, proving properties and new completions.
problem Understanding the earthquake metric on Teichmüller space.
method Proofs of properties, new completions, and interpretation of the metric.
result Coincidence of various completions for the earthquake metric.
Extends earthquake and horocycle flows to new measures.
problem Ergodic theory of earthquake flow on measured laminations.
method Generalizes shear coordinates to arbitrary measured laminations.
result Classifies ergodic measures for P action on bundle of quadratic differentials.
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.
problem Finding a unique geodesic between points in Teichmüller space.
method Energy minimization of harmonic map rays, extending Thurston boundary.
result Selection of a unique Thurston geodesic through points 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.
problem Computing centers of Poisson and skein algebras associated to loops on surfaces.
method Systematic method using Goldman and Wolpert's Poisson algebras and Turaev's skein algebras.
result Computed centers of various Poisson and skein algebras for finite type hyperbolic 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.
problem Transfer results from Teichmüller dynamics to earthquake flow.
method Analyze continuity of earthquake flow map and its inverse.
result Transfer results from Teichmüller dynamics to earthquake flow.
New geometric definition of Lie bracket for undirected curves.
problem Understanding the Lie bracket of undirected curves on a surface.
method Local geometric definition and proof of three results.
result The TWG bracket counts intersection and suggests disjoint representatives.
For a compact surface X0, Thurston introduced a compactification of its Teichmüller space T(X0) by completing it with a boundary PML(X0) consisting of projective measured geodesic laminations. We introduce a similar bordification for the Teichmüller space T(X0) of a noncompact Ri…
Deviance Voronoi residuals improve earthquake insurance risk assessment.
problem Assessing earthquake insurance risk using spatio-temporal point process models.
method Extended Voronoi residuals and created simulation-based approach.
result Proposed formula for country-wide minimum capital test.
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 …
Geodesic envelopes stay uniformly bounded in specific Teichmüller spaces.
problem Understanding the behavior of geodesics in Teichmüller spaces.
method Identifying extremal geodesics, computing Fenchel-Nielsen twisting, and estimating earthquake path lengths.
result Width of geodesic envelopes is uniformly bounded in specific Teichmüller spaces.
Developed theory for Thurston maps with a small set of essential singularities.
problem Characterizing Thurston maps with essential singularities.
method Analyzed pullback maps on Teichmüller space to characterize Thurston maps.
result Established a characterization theorem for Thurston maps with four postsingular values.
A bijection preserving horocycles/hypercycles is an isometry in hyperbolic plane.
problem Understanding transformations of constant curvature curves in hyperbolic geometry.
method Analyzing bijections that map horocycles to horocycles and hypercycles to hypercycles.
result Every abstract automorphism of geodesic/horocycles/hypercycles graphs is induced by an earthquake map/isometry.
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.
problem Constructing extremal Lipschitz maps between hyperbolic surfaces.
method Review of constructions including Thurston's original work.
result Coarse geometry and isometry rigidity of Thurston metric discussed.
Unified proof of Nielsen-Thurston classification via Teichmüller's theorem.
problem Classifying mapping class groups and rational maps.
method Unified proof following Bers' approach.
result Unified proof of Nielsen-Thurston classification.
Uniformly finite Cannon--Thurston fibers in most hyperbolic settings.
problem Existence and finiteness of Cannon--Thurston maps.
method Analysis of proper maps between hyperbolic metric spaces.
result Uniform finiteness of Cannon--Thurston fibers in most known 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.
problem Understanding earthquake deformations on Teichmüller space.
method Two methods: linear recurrence relations and hyperbolic geometry.
result Algebraic and geometric interpretations of earthquake deformations.
Constructs a universal Cannon-Thurston map for a new curve complex.
problem Mapping class groups and their boundaries.
method Using Birman exact sequence, proves hyperbolicity, constructs map.
result Universal Cannon-Thurston map to surviving curve complex boundary.
The Teichmüller space TS(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 TS(b) is Hamiltonian, by providing a Hamiltonian 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 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.
problem Predicting the location of earthquakes with high precision.
method Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks (R-CNN) model that accounts for spatio-temporal dependencies.
result Neural networks model outperforms baseline models in predicting earthquakes with ROC AUC 0.975 and PR AUC 0.0890.
Paper shows mapping class group-equivariant Teichmüller space deformation to Thurston spine.
problem Mapping Teichmüller space to Thurston spine.
method Equivariant deformation retraction of Teichmüller space onto a cell complex.
result Thurston spine contains points corresponding to hyperbolic surfaces with shortest geodesics forming polygons.
Computes minimal dilatation for Thurston maps on surfaces.
problem Finding the minimal dilatation of Thurston maps on surfaces.
method Explicit computation using spectral radius in a congruence subgroup of PSL2(Z).
result Explicitly computes minimal dilatation for Thurston maps.
Study shows house buyers in Christchurch value earthquake risk differently based on time since 2011 quake.
problem Understanding how house buyers' perception of earthquake risk changes over time.
method Used a hedonic price model to analyze house prices in Christchurch over three periods.
result Buyers value earthquake risk differently based on the time since the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
Study finds both existence and non-existence of maps in Morse boundaries.
problem Existence and non-existence of Cannon-Thurston maps in Morse boundaries.
method Examined Morse boundaries for normal subgroups.
result Found both existence and non-existence of Cannon-Thurston maps.
Modernizes Thurston's proof of entropy theorem for traintrack maps.
problem Proving the entropy theorem for traintrack maps using Thurston's methods.
method Modernizes Thurston's original proof, fills gaps, and proves ergodicity.
result A cohesive proof of the traintrack theorem, including ergodicity.
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.
problem Understanding universal circles for Anosov foliations with branching.
method Introduced a new type of Cannon--Thurston map for leftmost universal circles.
result Fundamental group acts on leftmost universal circle with pseudo-Anosov dynamics.
We prove that the bijective correspondence between the space of bounded measured laminations MLb(H) and the universal Teichmüller space T(H) given by λ↦Eλ∣S1 is a homeomorphism for the Fréchet topology on MLb(H) and the Teichmüller topology on T(H), where $E^λ…
EQShapelets detect earthquakes with high accuracy and interpretability.
problem Automated detection and cataloging of earthquakes.
method Time-series shape-based approach embedded in machine learning.
result EQShapelets detected all cataloged and 281 uncataloged events with lower false detection rate.
Fixed points found in Teichmüller space via anti-de Sitter geometry.
problem Finding fixed points in Teichmüller space using earthquakes.
method Left earthquakes along measured laminations, using anti-de Sitter geometry.
result Composition of left earthquakes has a fixed point.
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 D×{c} grows monotonically with c.…
The paper studies pseudo-Anosov maps from typical Thurston constructions.
problem Estimating the entropy of pseudo-Anosov maps from Thurston's constructions.
method Developed a method to extract information about random walks associated with Thurston's construction.
result Random walks eventually become pseudo-Anosov under certain conditions.
Proofs non-realizability of mapping class group via homeomorphisms, resolves Thurston's conjecture.
problem Non-realizability of mapping class group via homeomorphisms
method Short and elementary proof, rigidity results for actions on Euclidean spaces
result Proof of non-realizability of mapping class group via homeomorphisms
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.