Chern-Simons line bundle on Teichm\"uller space
Abstract
Let be a non-compact geometrically finite hyperbolic 3-manifold without cusps of rank 1. The deformation space of can be identified with the Teichm\"uller space of the conformal boundary of as the graph of a section in . We construct a Hermitian holomorphic line bundle on , with curvature equal to a multiple of the Weil-Petersson symplectic form. This bundle has a canonical holomorphic section defined by where is the renormalized volume of and is the Chern-Simons invariant of . This section is parallel on for the Hermitian connection modified by the component of the Liouville form on . As applications, we deduce that is Lagrangian in , and that is a K\"ahler potential for the Weil-Petersson metric on 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 and the sixth power of the determinant line bundle.
Cite
@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