The mapping class group and a theorem of
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John D. McCarthy; Athanase Papadopoulos
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In (Masur and Wolf, 1995), Masur and Wolf proved that the Teichmรผller space of genus g > 1 surfaces with the Teichmรผller metric is not a Gromov hyperbolic space. In this paper, we provide an alternative proof based upon a study of the action of the mapping class group on Teichmรผller space.