Construction of geodesics on Teichmüller spaces of Riemann surfaces with $\mathbb{Z}$ action

Abstract

Teichmüller space $\mathrm{Teich}(R)$ of a Riemann surface $R$ is a deformation space of $R$. In this paper, we prove a sufficient condition for extremality of the Beltrami coefficients when $R$ has the $\mathbb{Z}$ action. As an application, we discuss the construction of geodesics. Earle-Kra-Krushkaĺ proved that the necessary and sufficient conditions for the geodesics connecting $[0]$ and $[\mu ]$ to be unique are $\Vert {\mu }_0{\Vert }_{\infty }=|{\mu }_0|(z)$ (a.e.$z$) and ``unique extremality''. As a byproduct of our results, we show that we cannot exclude ``unique extremality''.To show the above claim, we construct a point $[{\mu }_0]$ in $\mathrm{Teich}(\mathbb{C}\setminus \mathbb{Z})$, satisfying $\Vert {\mu }_0{\Vert }_{\infty }=|{\mu }_0|(z)$ (a.e.$z$) and there exists a family of geodesics $\{{\gamma }_{\lambda }{\}}_{\lambda \in D}$ connecting $[0]$ and $[{\mu }_0]$ with complex analytic parameter, where $D$ is an open set in $l^{\infty }$.

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