The inner radii of finite-dimensional Teichmüller spaces (Q909064)

Let \(\Gamma\) be a Fuchsian group leaving the upper half plane U and lower half plane L invariant. By means of the Bers imbedding the Teichmüller space \(T(\Gamma)\) of \(\Gamma\) is identified with a bounded domain in the space \(B(L,\Gamma)\) of bounded quadratic differentials for \(\Gamma\). The inner radius \(i(\Gamma)\) of \(T(\Gamma)\) is the supremum of radii of balls centered at the origin which are contained in \(T(\Gamma)\subset B(L,\Gamma)\). It is known that \(i(\Gamma)\geq 2\) (Ahlfors and Weill) and \(i(\Gamma)>2\) for finitely generated groups \(\Gamma\) of the first kind. In this paper it is proved that inf\(\{\) \(i(\Gamma)\); signature\((\Gamma)=\sigma \}=2\) for every given signature \(\sigma \neq (0;\nu_ 1,\nu_ 2,\nu_ 3)\).