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The Weil-Petersson geometry of the five-times punctured sphere

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We give a new proof that the completion of the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichm\"uller space is Gromov-hyperbolic if the surface is a five-times punctured sphere or a twice-punctured torus. Our methods make use of the synthetic geometry of the Weil-Petersson metric.

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@article{arxiv.math/0501552,
  title  = {The Weil-Petersson geometry of the five-times punctured sphere},
  author = {Javier Aramayona},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0501552},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 pages. Revised version, to appear in "Spaces of Kleinian Groups", LMS Lecture Notes, Eds. Y.Minsky, M.Sakuma, C.Series