Cusps and the family hyperbolic metric (Q997102)

From the author's abstract: The hyperbolic metric for the punctured unit disc in the Euclidean plane is singular at the origin. A renormalization of the metric at the origin is provided by the Euclidean metric. For Riemann surfaces, there is a unique germ for the isometry class of a complete hyperbolic metric at a cusp. The renormalization of the metric for the punctured unit disc provides a renormalization for a hyperbolic metric at a cusp. For a holomorphic family of punctured Riemann surfaces, the family of (co)tangent spaces along a puncture defines a tautological holomorphic line bundle over the base of the family. The Hermitian connection and Chern form for the renormalized metric are determined. Connections to the works of \textit{M. Mirzakhani} [Invent. Math. 167, No. 1, 179--222 (2007; Zbl 1125.30039), J. Am. Math. Soc. 20, No. 1, 1--23 (2007; Zbl 1120.32008)] and \textit{L. Takhtajan} and \textit{P. Zograf} [Commun. Math. Phys. 137, No. 2, 399--426 (1991; Zbl 0725.58043)] and to intersection numbers for the moduli space of punctured Riemann surfaces studied by \textit{E. Witten} [Surv. Differ. Geom., Suppl. J. Diff. Geom. 1, 243--310 (1991; Zbl 0757.53049), J. Geom. Phys. 9, No. 4, 303--368 (1992; Zbl 0768.53042)] are presented.