Dias, K and Gupta, S and Trnkova, M (2021) Quadratic differentials, measured foliations, and metric graphs on punctured surfaces. In: Illinois Journal of Mathematics, 65 (2). pp. 417-454.
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Abstract
A meromorphic quadratic differential on a punctured Riemann surface induces horizontal and vertical measured foliations with pole singularities. In a neighborhood of a pole, such a foliation comprises foliated strips and half-planes, and its leaf space determines a metric graph. We introduce the notion of an asymptotic direction at each pole and show that for a punctured surface equipped with a choice of such asymptotic data, any com-patible pair of measured foliations uniquely determines a complex structure and a mero-morphic quadratic differential realizing that pair. This proves the analogue of a theorem of Gardiner–Masur for meromorphic quadratic differentials. We also prove an analogue of the Hubbard–Masur theorem; namely, for a fixed punctured Riemann surface there exists a meromorphic quadratic differential with any prescribed horizontal foliation, and such a differential is unique provided we prescribe the singular flat geometry at the poles.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Illinois Journal of Mathematics |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2023 10:15 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2023 10:15 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/81740 |
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