Abstract
Let S be a compact, connected, oriented surface, possibly with boundary,
of negative Euler characteristic. In this article we extend Lindenstrauss-Mirzakhani’s
and Hamenst¨adt’s classification of (homogeneous and non-homogenous) locally finite mapping class group invariant ergodic measures on the space of measured laminations ML(S) to the space of geodesic currents C(S). Moreover, we also extend Lindenstrauss-Mirzakhani’s classification of orbit closures toC(S). Our argument relies on their results and on the decomposition of a current into a sum of three currents with isotopically disjoint supports: a measured lamination without closed leaves, a simple multi-curve and a current that binds its hull.
of negative Euler characteristic. In this article we extend Lindenstrauss-Mirzakhani’s
and Hamenst¨adt’s classification of (homogeneous and non-homogenous) locally finite mapping class group invariant ergodic measures on the space of measured laminations ML(S) to the space of geodesic currents C(S). Moreover, we also extend Lindenstrauss-Mirzakhani’s classification of orbit closures toC(S). Our argument relies on their results and on the decomposition of a current into a sum of three currents with isotopically disjoint supports: a measured lamination without closed leaves, a simple multi-curve and a current that binds its hull.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2449-2513 |
| Number of pages | 65 |
| Journal | Annales de l'institut Fourier |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 29 Jul 2022 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 21 Oct 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:V.E. was partially supported by Academy of Finland project #297258 and EP-SRC grant EP/T015926/1. G.M. was partially supported by INdAM GNSAGA research group. While writing up the present article, we learnt that a proof of the dichotomy for currents of full hull (Theorem F) was independently obtained by Burger–Iozzi–Parreau–Pozzetti in [4]. The authors would like to thank François Labourie and Chris Leininger for interesting conversation on the topics of this paper. We are particularly indebted to Juan Souto for very valuable feedback, remarks and suggestions. We are also grateful to Marc Burger, Alessandra Iozzi, Anne Parreau and Beatrice Pozzetti for a very useful exchange of ideas after both our preprints had appeared and for spotting some mistakes and incongruences in the first version of this work. We also thank an anonymous referee for carefully reading our paper and for useful comments.
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Keywords: Hyperbolic surfaces, geodesic currents, mapping class group, measure classification. 2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 20F34, 30F60, 37A05, 57M50, 57S05. (*) V.E. was partially supported by Academy of Finland project #297258 and EP-SRC grant EP/T015926/1. G.M. was partially supported by INdAM GNSAGA research group.
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