1999/04/04 by Feng Luo
Mathematics · #math.GT #math.AG #math.DG
published as Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1999) 125-153 · 27 pages, 11 figures. Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, to appear
arxiv created 1999/04/04 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
This paper attempts to relate some ideas of Grothendieck in his Esquisse d'un programme and some of the recent results on 2-dimensional topology and geometry. Especially, we shall discuss the Teichmüller theory, the mapping class groups, SL(2, \bold C) representation variety of surface groups, and Thurston's theory of measured laminations.