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Cell decompositions of Teichmüller spaces of surfaces with boundary

Ren Guo and Feng Luo

Vol. 253 (2011), No. 2, 423–438
Abstract

A family of coordinates ψh for the Teichmüller space of a compact surface with boundary was introduced by the second author. Mondello showed that the coordinate ψ0 can be used to produce a natural cell decomposition of the Teichmüller space, invariant under the action of the mapping class group. In this paper, we show that, for any h 0, the coordinate ψh produces a natural cell decomposition of the Teichmüller space.

Keywords
Teichmüller space, cell decomposition, arc complex, Delaunay decomposition, ψh-coordinates
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 57M50
Secondary: 30F60
Milestones
Received: 29 December 2010
Revised: 2 August 2011
Accepted: 10 August 2011
Published: 21 January 2012
Authors
Ren Guo
School of Mathematics
University of Minnesota
206 Church St. SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
United States
Feng Luo
Department of Mathematics
Rutgers University
110 Frelinghuysen Rd.
Piscataway New Jersey 08854
United States