Liouville action and Weil-Petersson metric on deformation spaces, global Kleinian reciprocity and holography (Q1404750)

Fuchsian uniformization of Riemann surfaces plays an important role in the Teichmüller theory. In particular, it is built into the definition of the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichmüller spaces. Authors rigorously define the Liouville action functional for the finitely generated, purely loxodromic quasi-Fuchsian group using homology and cohomology double complexes naturally associated with the group action. They proved that classical action - the critical value of the Liouville action functional, considered as a function on the quasi-Fuchsian deformation space, is an antiderivative of a 1-form given by the difference of Fuchsian and quasi-Fuchsian projective connections. This result can be considered as global quasi-Fuchsian reciprocity which implies McMullen's quasi-Fuchsian reciprocity. Contents : 1. Introduction; 2. Liouville action functional; 3. Deformation theory; 4. Variation of the classical action; 5. Holography; 6. Generalization to Kleinian groups.