New results on the geometry of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces (Q943412)

The authors gives a brief survey of his recent results about the Mumford goodness of several canonical metrics on the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces, including the Weil-Petersson metric, the Ricci metric, the perturbed Ricci metric and the Kähler-Einstein metric. They also prove the dual Nakano negativity of the Weil-Petersson metric. As applications of these results they deduce certain important results about the \(L^2\)-cohomology groups of the logarithmic tangent bundle over the compactified moduli spaces.