Winning games for bounded geodesics in moduli spaces of quadratic differentials

Jonathan Chaika; Yitwah Cheung; Howard Masur

doi:10.3934/jmd.2013.7.395

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2013, Volume 7, Issue 3: 395-427. Doi: 10.3934/jmd.2013.7.395

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Winning games for bounded geodesics in moduli spaces of quadratic differentials

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Mathematics Department, 155 S 1400 E Room 233, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090
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Mathematics Department, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132
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Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 5734 S. University Avenue, Chicago, Il 60637

Received: December 2012

Published: December 2013

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We prove that the set of bounded geodesics in Teichmüller space is a winning set for Schmidt's game. This is a notion of largeness in a metric space that can apply to measure $0$ and meager sets. We prove analogous closely related results on any Riemann surface, in any stratum of quadratic differentials, on any Teichmüller disk and for intervals exchanges with any fixed irreducible permutation.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 30F30; Secondary: 32G15.

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