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We analyze the coarse geometry of the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichm\"uller space, focusing on applications to its synthetic geometry (in particular the behavior of geodesics). We settle the question of the strong relative hyperbolicity of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Jeffrey Brock , Howard Masur

This is the author's Ph.D. thesis, submitted to the University of Leipzig. It deals with the $L^2$ Riemannian metric on the manifold of all smooth Riemannian metrics on a fixed closed, finite-dimensional manifold. The main body of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Brian Clarke

Given a Riemann surface with boundary S, the lengths of a maximal system of disjoint simple geodesic arcs on S that start and end at the boundary of S perpendicularly are coordinates on the Teichmueller space T(S). We compute the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Gabriele Mondello

We propose an optimization algorithm for computing geodesics on the universal Teichm\"uller space T(1) in the Weil-Petersson ($W P$) metric. Another realization for T(1) is the space of planar shapes, modulo translation and scale, and thus…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Matt Feiszli , Akil Narayan

Let X be quasi-isometric to either the mapping class group equipped with the word metric, or to Teichmuller space equipped with either the Teichmuller metric or the Weil-Petersson metric. We introduce a unified approach to study the coarse…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Alex Eskin , Howard Masur , Kasra Rafi

We give a description of the completion of the manifold of all smooth Riemannian metrics on a fixed smooth, closed, finite-dimensional, orientable manifold with respect to a natural metric called the $L^2$ metric. The primary motivation for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Brian Clarke

We prove that every Weil-Petersson isometry of the Teichmuller space T(g,n) is induced by an element of the extended mapping class group; here 3g-3+n > 1 and (g,n) is not (1,2). Our method follows Ivanov's proof of the Royden's analogous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Howard Masur , Michael Wolf

Using the identification of the symmetric space $\mathrm{SL}(n,\mathbb{R})/\mathrm{SO}(n)$ with the Teichm\"uller space of flat $n$-tori of unit volume, we explore several metrics and compactifications of these spaces, drawing inspiration…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Mark Greenfield , Lizhen Ji

In this paper, we define and study the Weil-Petersson geometry. Under the framework of the Weil-Petersson geometry, we study the Weil-Petersson metric and the Hodge metric. Among the other results, we represent the Hodge metric in terms of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhiqin Lu , Xiaofeng Sun

The Teichm\"{u}ller curve is the fiber space over Teichm\"{u}ller space of closed Riemann surfaces, where the fiber over a point in Teichm\"{u}ller space is the underlying surface. We derive formulas for sectional curvatures on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-13 Ren Guo , Subhojoy Gupta , Zheng Huang

We propose and investigate a numerical shooting method for computing geodesics in the Weil-Petersson ($WP$) metric on the universal Teichm\"uller space T(1). This space, or rather the coset subspace $\PSL_2(\R)\backslash\Diff(S^1)$, has…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Sergey Kushnarev , Akil Narayan

A quick overview is provided on the current development of the WP metric geometry.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-03 Scott A. Wolpert

We extend a theorem of Masur and Wolf which says that given a hyperbolic surface S, every isometry of the Teichmuller space for S with the Weil-Petersson metric is induced by an element of the mapping class group for S. Our argument handles…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey Brock , Dan Margalit

A basic feature of Teichm\"uller theory of Riemann surfaces is the interplay of two dimensional hyperbolic geometry, the behavior of geodesic-length functions and Weil-Petersson geometry. Let $\mathcal{T}_g$ $(g\geq 2)$ be the Teichm\"uller…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Yunhui Wu

We undertake a systematic study of the infinitesimal geometry of the Thurston metric, showing that the topology, convex geometry and metric geometry of the tangent and cotangent spheres based at any marked hyperbolic surface representing a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Yi Huang , Ken'Ichi Ohshika , Athanase Papadopoulos

We use ending laminations for Weil-Petersson geodesics to establish that bounded geometry is equivalent to bounded combinatorics for Weil-Petersson geodesic segments, rays, and lines. Further, a more general notion of non-annular bounded…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-05-28 Jeffrey Brock , Howard Masur , Yair Minsky

The universal Teichm\"uller space is an infinitely dimensional generalization of the classical Teichm\"uller space of Riemann surfaces. It carries a natural Hilbert structure, on which one can define a natural Riemannian metric, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-07 Zheng Huang , Yunhui Wu

In this note, we consider two Riemannian metrics on a moduli space of metric graphs. Each of them could be thought of as an analogue of the Weil-Petersson metric on the moduli space of metric graphs. We discuss and compare geometric…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Lien-Yung Kao

We extend Velling's approach and prove that the second variation of the spherical areas of a family of domains defines a Hermitian metric on the universal Teichmuller curve, whose pull back to Diff+(S^1)/S^1 coincides with the Kirillov…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lee-Peng Teo

We find a remarkably simple relationship between the following two models of the tangent space to the Universal Teichm\"uller Space: (1) The real-analytic model consisting of Zygmund class vector fields on the unit circle; (2) The…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Subhashis Nag