Stretching three-holed spheres and the Margulis invariant

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2009-07-03

arxiv.org/abs/0907.0680v1

Contemporary Mathematics {\bf 510} (2009), 61--70

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Differential Geometry

10 pages, no figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the 2008 Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium

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This paper applies the authors' forthcoming work, "Affine deformations of a three-holed sphere" in Lorentzian geometry to prove a result in hyperbolic geometry. Namely, an infinitesimal deformation of a hyperbolic structure of a three-holed sphere which infinitesimally lengthens the three boundary components infinitesimally lengthens every closed geodesic. The proof interprets the derivative of the geodesic length function as the Margulis invariant (signed marked Lorentzian length spectrum) of the corresponding affine deformation. The aforementioned results imply that the affine deformation is proper, and hence by Margulis's Opposite Sign Lemma, every closed geodesic infinitesimmaly lengthens.

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