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Large parameter spaces of quasiconformally distinct hyperbolic structures

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SupposeS is a surface of infinite type with pants decomposition ⌆. We construct a real analytic embedding of an infinite-dimensional parameter space into the Fenchel-Nielsen space ofS with respect to ⌆, whose image is made up of topologically conjugate Fuchsian groups for which no two groups in the image are quasiconformally conjugate. Moreover, all of the Fuchsian groups in this parameter space have the same Fenchel—Nielsen twist parameters. As a consequence, arbitrarily close (in the Fenchel-Nielsen topology) to a hyperbolic structure forS there is an infinite-dimensional set of disjoint Teichmüller spaces.

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  1. Mathematics Department, University of Oklahoma, 73019, Norman, OK, USA

    Ara Basmajian (Junior faculty summer fellowship)

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Correspondence to Ara Basmajian.

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Research supported by a University of Oklahoma Junior faculty summer fellowship and in part by NSF Grant DMS-9404174.

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Basmajian, A. Large parameter spaces of quasiconformally distinct hyperbolic structures. J. Anal. Math. 71, 75–85 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02788023

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