Triangulated Riemann surfaces with boundary and the Weil-Petersson Poisson structure (Q1004359)

Given a hyperbolic surface with geodesic boundary \(S\), the length of a maximal system of disjoint simple geodesic arcs on \(S\) that start and end at \(\partial S\) perpendicularly are coordinates on the Teichmüller space \(T(S)\). The author expresses the Weil-Petersson Poisson structure of \(T(S)\) in this system of coordinates and proves that it limits pointwise to the piecewise linear Poisson structure defined by Kontsevich on the arc complex of \(S\). At the same time, the author obtains a formula for the first order variation of the distance between two closed geodesics under Fenchel-Nielsen deformation.