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We prove a semisimplicity result for the boundary, in the corresponding Deligne-Mumford compactification, of a totally geodesic subvariety of a moduli space of Riemann surfaces. At the level of Teichm\"uller space, this semisimplicity…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Francisco Arana-Herrera , Alex Wright

Fix a number $g>1$, let $S$ be a close surface of genus $g$, and $Teich(S)$ be the Teichm\"uller space of $S$ endowed with the Weil-Petersson metric. In this paper we show that the Riemannian sectional curvature operator of $Teich(S)$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Yunhui Wu

We prove that the universal Teichmuller space T(1) carries a new structure of a complex Hilbert manifold. We show that the connected component of the identity of T(1), the Hilbert submanifold T_{0}(1), is a topological group. We define a…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leon A. Takhtajan , Lee-Peng Teo

The projective curvature tensor $P$ is invariant under a geodesic preserving transformation on a semi-Riemannian manifold. It is well known that $P$ is not a generalized curvature tensor and hence it possesses different geometric properties…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Absos Ali Shaikh , Haradhan Kundu

In this paper, we introduce a new asymmetric weak metric on the Teichm{\"u}ller space of a closed orientable surface with (possibly empty) punctures.This new metric, which we call the Teichm{\"u}ller-Randers metric, is an asymmetric…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Hideki Miyachi , Ken'Ichi Ohshika , Athanase Papadopoulos

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

In a family of compact, canonically polarized, complex manifolds the first variation of the lengths of closed geodesics is computed. As an application, we show the coincidence of the Fenchel-Nielsen and Weil-Petersson symplectic forms on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-08-28 Reynir Axelsson , Georg Schumacher

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

We compute curvatures of a three-manifold formed by a Weil-Petersson geodesic in Teichmuller space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-17 Zheng Huang

In this paper we study the systole function along Weil-Petersson geodesics. We show that the square root of the systole function is uniformly Lipschitz on Teichm\"uller space endowed with the Weil-Petersson metric. As an application, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Yunhui Wu

It turns out that complex geodesics in Teichm\"uller spaces with respect to their invariant metrics are intrinsically connected with variational calculus for univalent functions. We describe this connection and show how geometric features…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Samuel L. Krushkal

We investigate the invariant metrics and complex geodesics in the universal Teichm\"{u}ller space and Teichm\"{u}ller space of the punctured disk using Milin's coefficient inequalities. This technique allows us to establish that all…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Samuel L. Krushkal

Sectional curvature bounds are of central importance in the study of Riemannian manifolds, both in smooth differential geometry and in the generalized synthetic setting of Alexandrov spaces. Riemannian metrics along with metric spaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Darius Erös , Michael Kunzinger , Argam Ohanyan , Alessio Vardabasso

We give two flexible and degenerate constructions related to a theorem of Thurston. First, we produce geodesic segments for Thurston's asymmetric metric on Teichm\"uller space $\mathcal{T}(S_g)$ that remain geodesics after adding arbitrary…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Alexander Nolte

On the thick part of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces, where there is a positive lower bound of the systole of the surface, we show that all Weil-Petersson Riemannian curvatures are bounded, independent of the genus of the surface.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zheng Huang

We show that on every ${\sf RCD}$ spaces it is possible to introduce, by a distributional-like approach, a Riemann curvature tensor. Since after the works of Petrunin and Zhang-Zhu we know that finite dimensional Alexandrov spaces are ${\sf…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Nicola Gigli

For a complete Riemannian manifold $M$ with an (1,1)-elliptic Codazzi self-adjoint tensor field $A$ on it, we use the divergence type operator ${L_A}(u): = div(A\nabla u)$ and an extension of the Ricci tensor to extend some major comparison…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-13 S. H. Fatemi , S. Azami

Discrete forms of the mean and directed curvature are constructed on piecewise flat manifolds, providing local curvature approximations for smooth manifolds embedded in both Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces. The resulting expressions take…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Rory Conboye

We introduce a notion of geodesic curvature $k_{\zeta}$ for a smooth horizontal curve $\zeta$ in a three-dimensional contact sub-Riemannian manifold, measuring how much a horizontal curve is far from being a geodesic. We show that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Davide Barilari , Mathieu Kohli

We present a detailed study of the curvature and symplectic asphericity properties of symmetric products of surfaces. We show that these spaces can be used to answer nuanced questions arising in the study of closed Riemannian manifolds with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Luca F. Di Cerbo , Alexander Dranishnikov , Ekansh Jauhari