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Chern-Simons line bundle on Teichm\"uller space

Differential Geometry 2011-07-26 v3 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP

Abstract

Let XX be a non-compact geometrically finite hyperbolic 3-manifold without cusps of rank 1. The deformation space \mcH\mc{H} of XX can be identified with the Teichm\"uller space \mcT\mc{T} of the conformal boundary of XX as the graph of a section in T\mcTT^*\mc{T}. We construct a Hermitian holomorphic line bundle \mcL\mc{L} on \mcT\mc{T}, with curvature equal to a multiple of the Weil-Petersson symplectic form. This bundle has a canonical holomorphic section defined by e1πVolR(X)+2πi\CS(X)e^{\frac{1}{\pi}{\rm Vol}_R(X)+2\pi i\CS(X)} where VolR(X){\rm Vol}_R(X) is the renormalized volume of XX and \CS(X)\CS(X) is the Chern-Simons invariant of XX. This section is parallel on \mcH\mc{H} for the Hermitian connection modified by the (1,0)(1,0) component of the Liouville form on T\mcTT^*\mc{T}. As applications, we deduce that \mcH\mc{H} is Lagrangian in T\mcTT^*\mc{T}, and that VolR(X){\rm Vol}_R(X) is a K\"ahler potential for the Weil-Petersson metric on \mcT\mc{T} and on its quotient by a certain subgroup of the mapping class group. For the Schottky uniformisation, we use a formula of Zograf to construct an explicit isomorphism of holomorphic Hermitian line bundles between \mcL1\mc{L}^{-1} and the sixth power of the determinant line bundle.

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@article{arxiv.1102.1981,
  title  = {Chern-Simons line bundle on Teichm\"uller space},
  author = {Colin Guillarmou and Sergiu Moroianu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.1981},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

36 pages. Minor modifications in introduction

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