Diff(S\({}^ 1)\) and the Teichmüller spaces (Q917744)

Consider two infinite-dimensional, holomorphically homogeneous complex analytic Kähler manifolds \(N=Diff(S^ 1)/Rot(S^ 1)\) and \(M=Diff(S^ 1)/Moeb(S^ 1)\). Note that N is a holomorphic disc fiber space over M. Further, M can be naturally considered as embedded in the classical universal Teichmüller space T(1), simply by noting that a diffeomorphism of \(S^ 1\) is a quasi-symmetric homeomorphism. T(1) is itself a homomorphically homogeneous complex Banach manifold. The authors prove in the first part of the paper that the inclusion of M in T(1) is complex analytic. In the second part of this paper it is shown that the unique homogeneous Kähler metric carried by \(M=Diff(S^ 1)/SL(2,{\mathbb{R}})\) induces precisely the Weil-Petersson metric on the Teichmüller space.