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Teichmüller rays and the Gardiner–Masur boundary of Teichmüller space II

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In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of Teichmüller geodesic rays in the Gardiner–Masur compactification. We will observe that any Teichmüller geodesic ray converges in the Gardiner–Masur compactification. Therefore, we get a mapping from the space of projective measured foliations to the Gardiner–Masur boundary by assigning the limits of associated Teichmüller rays. We will show that this mapping is injective but is neither surjective nor continuous. We also discuss the set of points where this mapping is bicontinuous.

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Dedicated to Professor Masahiko Taniguchi on his 60th Birthday.

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Miyachi, H. Teichmüller rays and the Gardiner–Masur boundary of Teichmüller space II. Geom Dedicata 162, 283–304 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-012-9727-z

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