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math.GT2007
Slicing, skinning, and grafting
David Dumas, Richard P. Kent
We prove that a Bers slice is never algebraic, meaning that its Zariski closure in the character variety has strictly larger dimension. A corollary is that skinning maps are never…
math.GT2006
Distribution of intersection lengths of a random geodesic with a geodesic lamination
Martin Bridgeman, David Dumas
We investigate the distribution of lengths obtained by intersecting a random geodesic with a geodesic lamination. We give an explicit formula for the distribution for the case of a…