Thurston's Riemannian metric for Teichmüller space (Q1075608)
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Thurston's Riemannian metric for Teichmüller space (English)
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1986
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First, the author gives short reviews on the geometry of the unit tangent bundle and on Teichmüller theory. Then he proves that Thurston's metric is the Weil-Petersson metric and considers some applications to the Hermitian geometry of the Fenchel Nielsen vector fields.
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Teichmüller theory
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Thurston's metric
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Hermitian geometry
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