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Thurston's work on surfaces /

"This book provides a detailed exposition of William Thurston's work on surface homeomorphisms, available here for the first time in English. Based on material of Thurston presented at a seminar in Orsay from 1976 to 1977, it covers topics such as the space of measured foliations on a surf...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fathi, Albert, Laudenbach, François, Poenaru, Valentin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Colección:Mathematical notes (Princeton University Press) ; 48.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An overview of Thurston's on surfaces
  • Some reminders about the theory of surface diffeomorphisms
  • Review of hyperbolic geometry in dimension 2
  • The space of simple closed curves in a surface
  • A pair of pants decompositions of a surface
  • Spines of surfaces
  • The classification of measured foliations
  • Explicit formulas for measured foliations
  • Teichmuller space
  • Thurston compactification of Teichmuller space
  • Estimates of hyperbolic distances
  • The classification of surface diffeomorphisms
  • Thurston's theory for surface with boundary
  • Uniqueness for pseudo-Anosov diffeorphisms
  • Constructing Pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms
  • Fibrations over s1 with Pseudp-Anosov monodromy
  • Presentation of the mapping class group.