Thurston’s asymmetric metric on the space of singular flat metrics with a fixed quadrangulation. (English) Zbl 07861331
Summary: Consider a compact surface equipped with a fixed quadrangulation. One may identify each quadrangle on the surface with a Euclidean rectangle to obtain a singular flat metric on the surface with conical singularities. We call such a singular flat metric a rectangular structure. We study a metric on the space of unit area rectangular structures which is analogous to Thurston’s asymmetric metric on the Teichmüller space of a surface of finite type. We prove that the distance between two rectangular structures is equal to the logarithm of the maximum of ratios of edges of these rectangular structures. We give a sufficient condition for a path between two points of the this Teichmüller space to be geodesic and we prove that any two points of this space can be joined by a geodesic. We also prove that this metric is Finsler and give a formula for the infinitesimal weak norm on the tangent space of each point. We identify the space of unit area rectangular structures with a submanifold of a Euclidean space and we show that the subspace topology and the topology induced by the metric we introduced coincide. We show that the space of unit area rectangular structures on a surface with a fixed quadrangulation is in general not complete.
MSC:
| 32G15 | Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) |
| 51F99 | Metric geometry |
| 57K20 | 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) |
| 57M50 | General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds |
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