Geometry and Topology Seminar

Series: Geometry and Topology Seminar Series

Thurston's asymmetric metric for unusual surfeces

Daniele Alessandrini, Professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Heidelberg,

hurston introduced its asymmetric metric for Teichmüller
spaces of closed surfaces or for surfaces with punctures. This is a
Finsler metric with very nice geometric properties and applications.
Similar distances can be defined also for the Teichmüller spaces of
surfaces with boundary and of surfaces of infinite topological type,
even if these cases are much more delicate. I will discuss some
properties of this distance in this more general setting.

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