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Earthquake map

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An earthquake is roughly a sort of limit of simple earthquakes, where one has an infinite number of geodesics, and instead of attaching a positive real number to each geodesic one puts a measure on them.
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More generally one can do the same construction with a finite number of disjoint simple geodesics, each with a real number attached to it. The result is called a simple earthquake.
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consists of a map between copies of the hyperbolic plane with geodesic laminations, that is an isometry from each stratum of the foliation to a stratum. Moreover, if
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to the left, and glue them back. This gives a new hyperbolic surface, and the (possibly discontinuous) map between them is an example of a left earthquake.
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of a hyperbolic surface is a closed subset with a foliation by geodesics. A
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Thurston's earthquake theorem states that for any two points
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is the isometry of the whole plane that restricts to
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is a hyperbolic transformation whose axis separates
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on an oriented hyperbolic surface and a real number
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Index

Seismic hazard map
hyperbolic geometry
hyperbolic manifold
William Thurston
1986
simple closed
geodesic
Teichmüller space
Kerckhoff (1983)
Nielsen realization problem
Kerckhoff, Steven P.
Annals of Mathematics
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.353.3593
doi
10.2307/2007076
ISSN
0003-486X
JSTOR
2007076
MR
0690845
Travaux de Thurston sur les surfaces
Société Mathématique de France
ISBN
978-99920-1-230-7
MR
0568308
Thurston, William P.
Cambridge University Press

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