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   Frontiers in Mathematical Sciences - 8th Conference


TITLE  
Absolutely continuous stationary measures for the mapping class group


SPEAKER  
Kasra Rafi
University of Toronto





ABSTRACT

We prove a version of a Theorem of Furstenberg in the setting of Mapping class groups. Thurston measure defines a smooth measure class on space of projectivized measured laminations For every measure ν in this measure class, we produce a measure μ with finite first moment on the mapping class group such that ν is the unique μ-stationary measure. In particular, this gives an coding-free proof of the already known result that the Lyapunov spectrum of Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle on the principal stratum of quadratic differentials is simple. This is a joint work with Alex Eskin and Maryam Mirzakhani.