Weil-Petersson volumes (Q1203624)

Given a top-dimensional differential form \(\omega\) on the moduli space \(M^ s_ g\) of Riemann surfaces of genus \(g\) with \(s(\geq 1)\) punctures, the author has proposed a method of integrating \(\omega\) over \(M^ s_ g\). The idea is to utilise a certain ``decoration by horocycles'' bundle over the Teichmüller space \(T^ s_ g\), because this bundle allows a good modular-invariant cell decomposition and a global coordinate system. Applying the technique to the Weil-Petersson voume form, it is shown that \(\text{vol}(M^ 2_ 1)=\pi^ 4/8\) and \(\text{vol}(M^ 1_ g)\geq g^{-2} c^{-2g}(2g)!\), where \(c<0.15\) is a constant independent of \(g\).