Hyperbolic structures on surfaces and geodesic currents
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These are lecture notes for a course given by the authors during the program Automorphisms of Free Groups: Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics, held at the CRM (Barcelona) in 2012. The main objective of the notes is to describe Bonahon’s construction of Thurston’s compactification of Teichmüller space, in terms of geodesic currents on surfaces. In the final section, we present several extensions of the notion of geodesic current to various other more general settings.
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