| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Progress in mathematics ; volume 345 |
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Progress in mathematics (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 345.
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| Contents |
880-01 Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notation -- 1 Introduction -- Some Things that the Reader Will Not Find in This Book -- What the Reader Will Find Here -- A Comment on the Way This Book Is Written -- 2 Read Me -- Curves, Multicurves, and Arcs -- Intersection Number -- Geodesic Representatives -- Random Geodesics. Or Length Versus Intersections -- Space of Geodesics -- Geodesics Projecting into a Fixed Compact Set -- Laminations -- Hausdorff Limits -- Mapping Class Group -- Shortening Curves -- 3 Geodesic Currents -- Definition and Examples -- Curves as Currents |
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880-01/(S 11 Statistics of Simple Curves -- Credit to Kasra -- Hard Data -- A Formula for c(α0) for Simple Curves -- Punctured Spheres -- Separating Curves in Closed Surfaces -- Non-Separating Curves in Closed Surfaces -- Combinatorial Computation -- Changing Weights -- Comments -- 12 Smörgåsbord -- Random Pants Decompositions -- Lattice Point Counting in Teichmüller Space -- Genericty of pseudo-Anosov Elements -- A Radon Measures -- Point-Set Topology -- Weak-*-Topology -- Sequential Compactness -- B Computing Thurston Volumes -- Punctured Spheres -- Separating Curves in Closed Surfaces |
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Masur's Ergodicity Theorem -- An Example: The Case of the Once Punctured Torus -- Comments -- Piecewise Linear Structure -- Symplectic Structure -- Weil-Petersson Volume Form -- Other Interesting Measures on ML(S) -- 5 Radallas -- Terminology -- The Game of Cars -- Almost Geodesic Radallas -- Finding Almost Geodesic Radallas -- Generic Curves -- Comments: Expected Angle of Self-Intersection -- 6 Subconvergence of Measures -- Idea of the Proof of Theorem 6.1 -- Local Map -- Global Map -- New Measures -- Comments -- 7 Approximating the Thurston Measure -- Dribbling |
| Summary |
This monograph presents an approachable proof of Mirzakhanis curve counting theorem, both for simple and non-simple curves. Designed to welcome readers to the area, the presentation builds intuition with elementary examples before progressing to rigorous proofs. This approach illuminates new and established results alike, and produces versatile tools for studying the geometry of hyperbolic surfaces, Teichmuller theory, and mapping class groups. Beginning with the preliminaries of curves and arcs on surfaces, the authors go on to present the theory of geodesic currents in detail. Highlights include a treatment of cusped surfaces and surfaces with boundary, along with a comprehensive discussion of the action of the mapping class group on the space of geodesic currents. A user-friendly account of train tracks follows, providing the foundation for radallas, an immersed variation. From here, the authors apply these tools to great effect, offering simplified proofs of existing results and a new, more general proof of Mirzakhanis curve counting theorem. Further applications include counting square-tiled surfaces and mapping class group orbits, and investigating random geometric structures. Mirzakhanis Curve Counting and Geodesic Currents introduces readers to powerful counting techniques for the study of surfaces. Ideal for graduate students and researchers new to the area, the pedagogical approach, conversational style, and illuminating illustrations bring this exciting field to life. Exercises offer opportunities to engage with the material throughout. Basic familiarity with 2-dimensional topology and hyperbolic geometry, measured laminations, and the mapping class group is assumed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 4, 2022) |
| Subject |
Curves.
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Curves, Algebraic.
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Curvas
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Curvas algebraicas
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Curves
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Curves, Algebraic
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Souto, Juan, author
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| ISBN |
9783031087059 |
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3031087054 |
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