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Teichmüller 空間英語Teichmüller space

數學中, Teichmüller 空間 of a (real) topological (or differential) 曲面 , is a space that parametrizes 復結構 on up to the action of 同胚s that are isotopic to the identity homeomorphism. 中的每一點可視為「標記」 Riemann 曲面的一個等價類, where a "marking" is an isotopy class of homeomorphisms from to itself.

It can also be viewed as a 模空間 for marked hyperbolic structure on the surface, and this endows it with a natural topology for which it is homeomorphic to a ball of dimension for a surface of genus . In this way Teichmüller space can be viewed as the universal covering orbifold of the Riemann moduli space.

Teichmüller 空間具有一個典範的複流形結構, 以及豐富的自然度量. 考察這些各式各樣結構的幾何特徵是一個富有成果的研究方向.

Teichmüller 空間以 Oswald Teichmüller英語Oswald Teichmüller 的名字命名.

歷史

Riemann 曲面模空間及相關的 Fuchs 群英語Fuchsian group的研究始自 Bernhard Riemann 的工作. Riemann 明白, 刻畫虧格為 的曲面上的各種不同的復結構需要 個參數. 從19世紀晚期到20世紀早期的 Teichmüller 空間早期研究是幾何式的, 其基礎是將 Riemann 曲面解釋為雙曲型曲面, 主要貢獻者包括 Felix Klein, Henri Poincaré, Paul Koebe英語Paul Koebe, Jakob Nielsen英語Jakob Nielsen (mathematician), Robert Fricke英語Robert FrickeWerner Fenchel英語Werner Fenchel.

Teichmüller 在模研究方面的主要貢獻是將擬共形映射引入此課題. They allow us to give much more depth to the study of moduli spaces by endowing them with additional features that were not present in the previous, more elementary works. After World War II the subject was developed further in this analytic vein, in particular by Lars AhlforsLipman Bers英語Lipman Bers. The theory continues to be active, with numerous studies of the complex structure of Teichmüller space (introduced by Bers).

The geometric vein in the study of Teichmüller space was revived following the work of William Thurston in the late seventies, who introduced a geometric compactification which he used in his study of the 映射類群英語mapping class group of a surface. Other more combinatorial objects associated to this group (in particular the curve complex) have also been related to Teichmüller space, and this is a very active subject of research in 幾何群論.

定義

Teichmüller space from complex structures

  為一個可定向光滑曲面 (即2維微分流形). 非正式來講,   的 Teichmueller空間    上的 Riemann 曲面結構全體的同倫等價類空間.

其正式定義之一如下.   的兩個復結構   稱為等價的, 如果存在一個可微同胚   使得:

  •   是全純的 (the differential is complex linear at each point, for the structures   at the source and   at the target) ;
  •    的恆同自映射同倫等價 (存在連續映射   滿足  ).

   上的復結構全體在此等價關係下的商空間.

另一種等價的定義是:   is the space of pairs   where   is a Riemann surface and   a diffeomorphism, and two pairs   are regarded as equivalent if   is isotopic to a holomorphic diffeomorphism. Such a pair is called a marked Riemann surface; the marking being the diffeomeorphism; another definition of markings is by systems of curves.[1]

There are two simple examples that are immediately computed from the 單值化定理: there is a unique complex structure on the 球面   (參見 Riemann 球面) and there are two on   (the complex plane and the unit disk) and in each case the group of positive diffeomorphisms is 可縮的. Thus the Teichmüller space of   is a single point and that of   contains exactly two points.

A slightly more involved example is the open annulus, for which the Teichmüller space is the interval   (the complex structure associated to   is the Riemann surface  ).

The Teichmüller space of the torus and flat metrics

The next example is the 環面  . In this case any complex structure can be realised by a Riemann surface of the form   (a 復橢圓曲線) for a complex number   where   is the complex half-plane

 

There is then a map  , mapping   to the pair  . It is a bijection[2] and thus the Teichmüller space of   is  

Identifying   with the Euclidean plane each point in Teichmüller space can also be viewed as a marked flat structure on  . Thus the Teichmüller space is in bijection with the set of pairs   where   is a flat surface and   is a diffeomorphism up to isotopy on  .

有限型曲面

這是一類其 Teichmüller 空間研究得最多的曲面, 其中也包括了閉曲面. 一個曲面如果與一個去掉有限個點的緊曲面可微同胚, 則稱為是有限型的. 若  虧格 閉曲面英語closed surface, 則從   去掉   個點而得的曲面通常記作  , 而其 Teichmüller 空間記作  .

Teichmüller 空間與雙曲度量

Every finite type orientable surface other than the ones above admits complete Riemannian metrics of constant curvature  . For a given surface of finite type there is a bijection between such metrics and complex structures as follows from the 單值化定理. Thus if   the Teichmüller space   can be realised as the set of marked hyperbolic surfaces of genus   with   cusps, that is the set of pairs   where   is an hyperbolic surface and   is a diffeomorphism, modulo the equivalence relation where   and   are identified is   is isotopic to an isometry.

Teichmüller 空間的拓撲

In all cases computed above there is an obvious topology on Teichmüller space. In the general case there are many natural ways to topologise  , perhaps the simplest is via hyperbolic metrics and length functions.

If   is a 閉曲線 on   and   a marked hyperbolic surface then one   is homotopic to a unique 閉測地線英語closed geodesic   on   (up to parametrisation). The value at   of the length function associated to (the homotopy class of)   is then:

 

Let   be the set of 簡單閉曲線s on  . Then the map   defined by   is an embedding. The space   has the 積拓撲 and   is endowed with the 誘導拓撲. With this topology   is homeomorphic to  .

In fact one can obtain an embedding with   curves,[3] and even  .[4] In both case one can use the embedding to give a geometric proof of the homeomorphism above.

其它較為簡單的 Teichmüller 空間舉例

There is a unique complete hyperbolic metric on the three-holed sphere[5] and so the Teichmüller space   is a point (this also follows from the dimension formula of the previous paragraph).

The Teichmüller spaces   and   are naturally realised as the upper half-plane, as can be seen using Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates.

Teichmüller 空間與共形結構

Instead of complex structures of hyperbolic metrics one can define Teichmüller space using conformal structures. Indeed, conformal structures are the same as complex structures in two (real) dimensions.[6] Moreover, the Uniformisation Theorem also implies that in each conformal class of Riemannian metrics on a surface there is a unique metric of constant curvature.

Teichmüller 空間作為表示空間

Yet another interpretation of Teichmüller space is as a representation space for surface groups. If   is hyperbolic, of finite type and   is the 基本群 of   then Teichmüller space is in natural bijection with:

  • The set of injective representations   with discrete image, up to conjugation by an element of  , if   is compact ;
  • In general, the set of such representations, with the added condition that those elements of   which are represented by curves freely homotopic to a puncture are sent to parabolic elements of  , again up to conjugation by an element of  .

The map sends a marked hyperbolic structure   to the composition   where   is the monodromy of the hyperbolic structure and   is the isomorphism induced by  .

Note that this realises   as a closed subset of   which endows it with a topology. This can be used to see the homeomorphism   directly.[7]

This interpretation of Teichmüller space is generalised by higher Teichmüller theory, where the group   is replaced by an arbitrary semisimple 李群.

關於範疇的註記

All definitions above can be made in the 拓撲空間範疇 instead of the 微分流形範疇, and this does not change the objects.

無限維 Teichmüller 空間

Surfaces which are not of finite type also admit hyperbolic structures, which can be parametrised by infinite-dimensional spaces (homeomorphic to  ). Another example of infinite-dimensional space related to Teichmüller theory is the Teichmüller space of a lamination by surfaces.[8][9]

Action of the mapping class group and relation to moduli space

The map to moduli space

There is a map from Teichmüller space to the 模空間 of Riemann surfaces diffeomorphic to  , defined by  . It is a covering map, and since   is 單連通的 it is the orbifold universal cover for the moduli space.

Action of the mapping class group

The 映射類群英語mapping class group of   is the coset group   of the diffeomorphism group of   by the normal subgroup of those that are isotopic to the identity (the same definition can be made with homeomorphisms instead of diffeomorphisms and this does not change the resulting group). The group of diffeomorphisms acts naturally on Teichmüller space by

 

If   is a mapping class and   two diffeomorphisms representing it then they are isotopic. Thus the classes of   and   are the same in Teichmüller space, and the action above factorises through the mapping class group.

The action of the mapping class group   on the Teichmüller space is properly discontinuous, and the quotient is the moduli space.

不動點

The Nielsen realisation problem asks whether any finite group of the mapping class group has a global fixed point (a point fixed by all group elements) in Teichmüller space. In more classical terms the question is: can every finite subgroup of   be realised as a group of isometries of some complete hyperbolic metric on   (or equivalently as a group of holomorphic diffeomorphisms of some complex structure). This was solved by Steven Kerckhoff英語Steven Kerckhoff.[10]

坐標

Fenchel–Nielsen 坐標

The Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates (so named after Werner Fenchel英語Werner Fenchel and Jakob Nielsen英語Jakob Nielsen (mathematician)) on the Teichmüller space   are associated to a pants decomposition of the surface  . This is a decomposition of   into pairs of pants, and to each curve in the decomposition is associated its length in the hyperbolic metric corresponding to the point in Teichmüller space, and another real parameter called the twist which is more involved to define.[11]

In case of a closed surface of genus   there are   curves in a pants decomposition and we get   parameters, which is the dimension of  . The Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates in fact define a homeomorphism  .[12]

In the case of a surface with punctures some pairs of pants are "degenerate" (they have a cusp) and give only two length and twist parameters. Again in this case the Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates define a homeomorphism  .

Shear 坐標

If   the surface   admits ideal triangulations (whose vertices are exactly the punctures). By the formula for the Euler characteristic such a triangulation has   triangles. An hyperbolic structure   on   determines an (unique up to isotopy) diffeomorphism   sending every triangle to an hyperbolic ideal triangle, thus a point in  . The parameters for such a structure are the translation lengths for each pair of sides of the triangles glued in the triangulation.[13] There are   such parameters which can each take any value in  , and the completeness of the structure corresponds to a linear equation and thus we get the right dimension  . These coordinates are called shear coordinates.

For closed surfaces, a pair of pants can be decomposed as the union of two ideal triangles (it can be seen as an incomplete hyperbolic metric on the three-holed sphere[14]). Thus we also get   shear coordinates on  .

Earthquakes

A simple earthquake path in Teichmüller space is a path determined by varying a single shear or length Fenchel–Nielsen coordinate (for a fixed ideal triangulation of a surface). The name comes from seeing the ideal triangles or the pants as tectonic plates and the shear as plate motion.

More generally one can do earthquakes along geodesic laminations. A theorem of Thurston then states that two points in Teichmüller space are joined by a unique earthquake path.

分析理論

擬共形映射

A quasiconformal mapping between two Riemann surfaces is a homeomorphism which deforms the conformal structure in a bounded manner over the surface. More precisely it is differentiable almost everywhere and there is a constant  , called the dilatation, such that

 

where   are the derivatives in a conformal coordinate   and its conjugate  .

There are quasi-conformal mappings in every isotopy class and so an alternative definition for The Teichmüller space is as follows. Fix a Riemann surface   diffeomorphic to  , and Teichmüller space is in natural bijection with the marked surfaces   where   is a quasiconformal mapping, up to the same equivalence relation as above.

二次微分與 Bers 嵌入

 
Image of the Bers embedding of a punctured torus' 2-dimensional Teichmüller space

With the definition above, if   there is a natural map from Teichmüller space to the space of  -equivariant solutions to the Beltrami differential equation.[15] These give rise, via the Schwarzian derivative, to quadratic differentials on  .[16] The space of those is a complex space of complex dimension  , and the image of Teichmüller space is an open set.[17] This map is called the Bers embedding.

A quadratic differential on   can be represented by a translation surface conformal to  .

Teichmüller 映射

Teichmüller's theorem[18] states that between two marked Riemann surfaces   and   there is always a unique quasiconformal mapping   in the isotopy class of   which has minimal dilatation. This map is called a Teichmüller mapping.

In the geometric picture this means that for every two diffeomorphic Riemann surfaces   and diffeomorphism   there exists two polygons representing   and an affine map sending one to the other, which has smallest dilatation among all quasiconformal maps  .

度量

Teichmüller 度量

If   and the Teichmüller mapping between them has dilatation   then the Teichmüller distance between them is by definition  . This indeed defines a distance on   which induces its topology, and for which it is complete. This is the metric most commonly used for the study of the metric geometry of Teichmüller space. In particular it is of interest to geometric group theorists.

There is a function similarly defined, using the Lipschitz constants of maps between hyperbolic surfaces instead of the quasiconformal dilatations, on  , which is not symmetric.[19]

Weil–Petersson 度量

Quadratic differentials on a Riemann surface   are identified with the tangent space at   to Teichmüller space.[20] The Weil–Petersson metric is the Riemannian metric defined by the   inner product on quadratic differentials.

緊緻化

There are several inequivalent compactifications of Teichmüller spaces that have been studied. Several of the earlier compactifications depend on the choice of a point in Teichmüller space so are not invariant under the modular group, which can be inconvenient. William Thurston later found a compactification without this disadvantage, which has become the most widely used compactification.

Thurston 緊緻化

By looking at the hyperbolic lengths of simple closed curves for each point in Teichmüller space and taking the closure in the (infinite-dimensional) projective space, Thurston (1988) introduced a compactification whose points at infinity correspond to projective measured laminations. The compactified space is homeomorphic to a closed ball. This Thurston compactification is acted on continuously by the modular group. In particular any element of the modular group has a fixed point in Thurston's compactification, which Thurston used in his classification of elements of the modular group.

Bers 緊緻化

The Bers compactification is given by taking the closure of the image of the Bers embedding of Teichmüller space, studied by Bers (1970). The Bers embedding depends on the choice of a point in Teichmüller space so is not invariant under the modular group, and in fact the modular group does not act continuously on the Bers compactification.

Teichmüller 緊緻化

The "points at infinity" in the Teichmüller compactification consist of geodesic rays (for the Teichmüller metric) starting at a fixed basepoint. This compactification depends on the choice of basepoint so is not acted on by the modular group, and in fact Kerckhoff showed that the action of the modular group on Teichmüller space does not extend to a continuous action on this compactification.

Gardiner–Masur 緊緻化

Gardiner & Masur (1991)considered a compactification similar to the Thurston compactification, but using extremal length rather than hyperbolic length. The modular group acts continuously on this compactification, but they showed that their compactification has strictly more points at infinity.

Large-scale geometry

There has been an extensive study of the geometric properties of Teichmüller space endowed with the Teichmüller metric. Known large-scale properties include:

  • Teichmüller space   contains flat subspaces of dimension  , and there are no higher-dimensional quasi-isometrically embedded flats.[21]
  • In particular, if   or   or   then   is not hyperbolic.

On the other hand, Teichmüller space exhibits several properties characteristic of hyperbolic spaces, such as:

  • Some geodesics behave like they do in hyperbolic space.[22]
  • Random walks on Teichmüller space converge almost surely to a point on the Thurston boundary.[23]

Some of these features can be explained by the study of maps from Teichmüller space to the curve complex, which is known to be hyperbolic.

復幾何

Bers 嵌入賦予   一個復結構, 使之同構於   的一個開子集.

Metrics coming from the complex structure

Since Teichmüller space is a complex manifold it carries a Carathéodory 度量英語Carathéodory metric. Teichmüller space is Kobayashi hyperbolic and its 小林昭七度量英語Kobayashi metric coincides with the Teichmüller metric.[24] This latter result is used in Royden's proof that the mapping class group is the full group of isometries for the Teichmüller metric.

The Bers embedding realises Teichmüller space as a 全純域 and hence it also carries a Bergman 度量英語Bergman metric.

Teichmüller 空間上的 Kähler 度量

The Weil–Petersson metric is Kähler but it is not complete.

鄭紹遠 and 丘成桐 showed that there is a unique complete Kähler–愛因斯坦度量英語Kähler–Einstein metric on Teichmüller space.[25] It has constant negative scalar curvature.

Teichmüller space also carries a complete Kähler metric of bounded sectional curvature introduced by McMullen (2000) that is Kähler-hyperbolic.

Equivalence of metrics

With the exception of the incomplete Weil–Petersson metric, all metrics on Teichmüller space introduced here are 擬等距同構 to each other.[26]

參見

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