The visual sphere of Teichmuller space and a theorem of Masur-Wolf


John D. McCarthy
Department of Mathematics
Michigan State University
E. Lansing, MI 48824-1027

Athanase Papadopoulos
Department of Mathematics
Institut Louis Pasteur
Strasbourg, France

June 18, 1997



Abstract:

In "Teichmuller space is not Gromov hyperbolic", Masur and Wolf proved that the Teichmuller space of genus g > 1 surfaces with the Teichmuller metric is not a Gromov hyperbolic space. In this paper, we provide an alternative proof based upon a study of the visual sphere of Teichmuller space. Z‹‰.


This paper has been published: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Mathematika, Volumen 24, 1999, 147-154.


Contact: mccarthy@math.msu.edu

Last Revised 7/9/99