Handbook of Teichmüller theory, Vol. IV
Résumé
Teichmüller theory is today one of the most active research areas in mathematics, with a very wide range of applications, including Riemann surface theory, hyperbolic geometry, low-dimensional topology, several complex variables, algebraic geometry, arithmetic, partial differential equations, dynamical systems, representation theory, symplectic geometry, geometric group theory and mathematical physics. This multi-volume set arose from an attempt to present the various aspects of the theory with its relations to all the other research fields. The present volume, Number IV in the series, is divided into five parts, namely: Part A: "The metric and the analytic theory, 4." Part B: "Representation theory and generalized structures, 2." Part C: "Dynamics" Part D: "The quantum theory, 2" Part E: "Sources"; Parts A, B and D are sequels of parts carrying the same name in previous volumes of this handbook. Part E , entitled "Sources", has a new character in the series; it contains the translation together with a commentary of an important paper by Teichmüller which is almost unknown even to specialists of the subject. We hope that rendering available this translation together with its commentary will give an impulse to new ideas in the theory and will help putting the theory in a broader perspective. Most of the chapters are expository, and written by experts who have a broad view on the theory, but several chapters also contain new and important results. Together with all the other subjects that were treated in the previous volumes, this constitutes an overview of quite a large number of beautiful ideas. The topics presented in this volume involve several areas of mathematics and I do not exclude any other area in future volumes. The volume contains surveys on the Weil-Petersson metric, on the geometry of simple closed curves on surfaces, on the curve complex and on its relations to buildings, on the arc complex and the related operad structure, on extremal length, on holomorphic families, on various boundary structures, on infinite dimensional Teichmüller spaces, on moduli spaces of affine structures, on higher Teichmüller theory, on quasi-conformal mappings in higher dimensions, on the Teichmüller theory of theory of iterations of rational maps of the sphere, on the dynamics of the mapping class group actions on Teichmüller spaces of surfaces of infinite type and on the quantization theory.
Mots clés
holomorphic family
Riemann surface
Teichmüller curve
universal curve
affine structure
deformation space
Teichmüller theory
Toledo invariant
curve complex
arc complex
Tits building
compactification
Thurston boundary
horofunction boundary
Bers boundary
reduced Bers boundary
Lipschitz algebra
quasiconformal map
Teichmüller space
moduli space
Weil-Petersson metric
Weil-Petersson Funk metric
Thurston metric
operad
infinite-dimensional Teichmüller space
holomorphic dynamics