Isometric disks are holomorphic

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Abstract: This paper shows that every totally-geodesic isometry from the unit disk to a finite-dimensional Teichm"uller space for the intrinsic Kobayashi metric is either holomorphic or anti-holomorphic; in particular, it is a Teichm"uller disk. Additionally, a similar result is proved for a large class of disk-rigid domains, which includes strictly convex bounded domains, as well as Teichm"uller spaces.


Let \(S_{g, n}\) be a hyperbolic Riemann surface of genus \(g\) with \(n\) punctures and \(T_{g, n}\) denote the Teichmüller space of \(S_{g, n}\) with Kobayashi-Teichmüller metric. The main result of this paper is: Let \(f\) be an isometric map from the hyperbolic unit disk \(\Delta\) into the Teichmüller space \(T_{g, n}\). Then \(f\) is either holomorphic or anti-holomorphic; in particular, the image domain \(f(\Delta)\) is a Teichmüller disk in \(T_{g, n}\).



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