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The mapping class group and a theorem of Masur–Wolf

✍ Scribed by John D. McCarthy; Athanase Papadopoulos

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
96 KB
Volume
96
Category
Article
ISSN
0166-8641

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✦ Synopsis

In (Masur and Wolf, 1995), Masur and Wolf proved that the Teichmüller space of genus g > 1 surfaces with the Teichmüller 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 Teichmüller space.

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