A Thurston boundary for infinite-dimensional Teichmüller spaces

Francis Bonahon, Dragomir Šarić

For a compact surface $X_0$, Thurston introduced a compactification of its Teichmüller space $\mathcal{T}(X_0)$ by completing it with a boundary $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{ML}(X_0)$ consisting of p…