On the Kähler form of the moduli space of once punctured tori
On the Kähler form of the moduli space of once punctured tori
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一次刺穿环面模空间的凯勒形式
DOI:
10.1007/bf02564634
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发表时间:
1983
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0.9
通讯作者:
S. Wolpert
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作者:
S. Wolpert
A Riemann surface R of negative Euler characteristic has a unique hyperbolic metric. Provided R has finite area in this metric the Teichmiiller space T (R) of R will be a complex manifold. The complex structure of T (R) is characterized by describing the holomorphic cotangent space at R. A natural identification exists of the holomorphic cotangent space and Q (R), the space of holomorphic quadratic differentials on R. Consequently a Hermitian structure on Q (R) naturally gives rise to one on T (R). An example is the Petersson inner product. Given~ 0,~ b Q (R) define (q~, O)= IR~ x-2 where h 2 is the hyperbolic area element of R. The corresponding Hermitian structure on T (R) is that of the Weil-Petersson metric. The metric is invariant with respect to the Teichmiiller modular group and hence can be used to study the geometry of the moduli space of R. Ahlfors and Weil established that the metric is K~ ihler. We are concerned with the K~ ihler form to of the metric. A relationship exists between the geometry of to and that of the vector fields derived from a construction of Fenchel-Nielsen. A Fenchel-Nielsen vector field t (ot) on Teichmiiller space is associated to each closed geodesic ot of R. In the manuscript [10] the quantity to (t (~ t), t (/3)) is evaluated as the sum of the cosines of the intersection angles of ot and/3. It is also shown that the vector fields t (a) are Harniltonian for to; to is invariant under the flow of t (o~). The form to and vector fields t (ot) are the elements of a symplectic geometry for T (R). The geometry is natural in the sense that to is invariant with respect to the Teichmiiller modular group. The quotient of T (R) by the modular group is the classical moduli space of R. The K~ ihler form to projects to the moduli space. The simplest example of the above discussion is provided in the case of the once punctured torus. In the first section we describe natural global coordinates