Infinitesimal conjugacies and Weil-Petersson metric (Q1210530)

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    Infinitesimal conjugacies and Weil-Petersson metric (English)
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    13 June 1993
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    We study deformations of compact Riemannian manifolds of negative curvature. We give an equation for the infinitesimal conjugacy between geodesic flows. This in turn allows us to compute derivatives of intersection of metrics. As a consequence we obtain a proof of a theorem of Wolpert.
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    Teichmüller
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    Weil-Petersson metric
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    deformations
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    compact Riemannian manifolds of negative curvature
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    geodesic flows
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