Buser, PeterMakover, EranMutzel, BjoernSilhol, Robert2014-11-132014-11-132014-11-13201410.1007/s40315-014-0062-2https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/108674WOS:000343049500021In this paper we construct quasiconformal embeddings from Y-pieces that contain a short boundary geodesic into degenerate ones. These results are used in a companion paper to study the Jacobian tori of Riemann surfaces that contain small simple closed geodesics.Quasiconformal mapsPair of pants decompositionTeichmuller spacetext::journal::journal article::research article