Abstract
In this paper we consider the limit set in Thurston’s compactification
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Funding statement: Research of Jon Chaika partially supported by DMS-1004372 and DMS-1300550. Research of Howard Masur partially supported by DMS-0905907 and DMS-1205016. Research of Michael Wolf partially supported by DMS-1007383 and the Morningside Center (Tsinghua University). Howard Masur and Michael Wolf appreciate the support of the GEAR Network (DMS-1107452, DMS-1107263, DMS-1107367).
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the referee for numerous helpful suggestions.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Limits in 𝒫ℳℱ of Teichmüller geodesics
- Rational connectivity and analytic contractibility
- Uniformization of p-adic curves via Higgs–de Rham flows
- Néron models of jacobians over base schemes of dimension greater than 1
- Cuspidal curves, minimal models and Zaidenberg’s finiteness conjecture
- Moduli of Bridgeland semistable objects on 3-folds and Donaldson–Thomas invariants
- ⌢𝒟-modules on rigid analytic spaces I
- Tilings of amenable groups
- Universal K-matrix for quantum symmetric pairs