The vanishing rate of Weil-Petersson sectional curvatures

DOI10.1007/S10711-021-00650-XzbMATH Open1489.30048arXiv1908.09859OpenAlexW3198536406MaRDI QIDQ2665232FDOQ2665232

Authors: Scott A. Wolpert 

Publication date: 18 November 2021

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Weil-Petersson metric for the moduli space of Riemann surfaces has negative sectional curvature. Surfaces represented in the complement of a compact set in the moduli space have short geodesics. At such surfaces the Weil-Petersson metric is approximately a product metric. An almost product metric has sections with almost vanishing curvature. We bound the sectional curvature away from zero in terms of the product of lengths of short geodesics on Riemann surfaces. We give examples and an expectation for the actual vanishing rate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09859

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zbMATH Keywords

Green's functionBeltrami differentialsWeil-Petersson sectional curvatures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Integral representations, integral operators, integral equations methods in two dimensions (31A10)

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