Riemann surfaces and the geometrization of 3-manifolds

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00313-0zbMath0765.57012arXivmath/9210224MaRDI QIDQ4020137

Curtis T. McMullen

Publication date: 16 January 1993

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9210224

zbMATH Keywords

dilatationTeichmüller spaceRiemann surfacequasiconformal mapping3-manifoldamenablegeometrizationskinning map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Extremal problems for conformal and quasiconformal mappings, other methods (30C75)

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