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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151936403321

Titolo

Handbook of Teichmüller Theory, Volume I [[electronic resource] /] / Athanase Papadopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zuerich, Switzerland, : European Mathematical Society Publishing House, 2007

ISBN

3-03719-529-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (802 pages)

Collana

IRMA Lectures in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (IRMA) ; , 2523-5133 ; ; 11

Classificazione

30-xx32-xx

Soggetti

Complex analysis

Functions of a complex variable

Several complex variables and analytic spaces

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to Teichmüller theory, old and new / Athanase Papadopoulos -- Harmonic maps and Teichmüller theory / Georgios D. Daskalopoulos, Richard A. Wentworth -- On Teichmüller's metric and Thurston's asymmetric metric on Teichmüller space / Athanase Papadopoulos, Guillaume Théret -- Surfaces, circles, and solenoids / Robert C. Penner -- About the embedding of Teichmüller space in the space of geodesic Hölder distributions / Jean-Pierre Otal -- Teichmüller spaces, triangle groups and Grothendieck dessins / William J. Harvey -- On the boundary of Teichmüller disks in Teichmüller and in Schottky space / Frank Herrlich, Gabriela Schmithüsen -- Introduction to mapping class groups of surfaces and related groups / Shigeyuki Morita -- Geometric survey of subgroups  of mapping class groups / John Loftin -- Deformations of Kleinian groups / Albert Marden -- Geometry of the complex of curves and of Teichmüller space / Ursula Hamenstädt -- Parameters for generalized Teichmüller spaces / Charalampos Charitos, Ioannis Papadoperakis -- On the moduli space of singular euclidean surfaces / Marc Troyanov -- Discrete Riemann surfaces / Christian Mercat -- On quantizing Teichmüller and Thurston theories / Leonid Chekhov, Robert C. Penner -- Dual Teichmüller and lamination spaces / Vladimir V. Fock, Alexander Goncharov -- An



analog of a modular functor from quantized Teichmüller theory / Jörg Teschner -- On quantum moduli space of flat PSL2(ℝ)-connections on a punctured surface / Rinat Kashaev.

Sommario/riassunto

The Teichmüller space of a surface was introduced by O. Teichmüller  in the 1930s. It is a basic tool in the study of Riemann's moduli  space and of the mapping class group. These objects are fundamental  in several fields of mathematics including algebraic geometry,  number theory, topology, geometry, and dynamics.      The original setting of Teichmüller theory is complex analysis.  The work of Thurston in the 1970s brought techniques of hyperbolic  geometry in the study of Teichmüller space and of its asymptotic  geometry. Teichmüller spaces are also studied from the point of view  of the representation theory of the fundamental group of the surface  in a Lie group G, most notably G = PSL(2,ℝ) and G = PSL(2,ℂ).  In the 1980s, there evolved an essentially combinatorial treatment of  the Teichmüller and moduli spaces involving techniques and ideas  from high-energy physics, namely from string theory. The current  research interests include the quantization of Teichmüller space, the  Weil-Petersson symplectic and Poisson geometry of this space as well  as gauge-theoretic extensions of these structures. The quantization  theories can lead to new invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.      The purpose of this handbook is to give a panorama of some of  the most important aspects of Teichmüller theory. The handbook  should be useful to specialists in the field, to graduate students,  and more generally to mathematicians who want to learn about the  subject. All the chapters are self-contained and have a pedagogical  character. They are written by leading experts in the subject.