A Uniqueness Property for the Quantization of Teichmüller Spaces

Abstract

Chekhov, Fock and Kashaev introduced a quantization of the Teichmüller space ${\mathcal{T}}^q(S)$ of a punctured surface $S$, and an exponential version of this construction was developed by Bonahon and Liu. The construction of the quantum Teichmüller space crucially depends on certain coordinate change isomorphisms between the Chekhov-Fock algebras associated to different ideal triangulations of $S$. We show that these coordinate change isomorphisms are essentially unique, once we require them to satisfy a certain number of natural conditions.

14 pages, 3 figures