Realizing the Teichm\"uller space as a symplectic quotient

Publication date 25 September 2019

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Differential geometric aspects of gerbes and differential characters (53C08) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

Abstract: Given a closed surface endowed with a volume form, we equip the space of compatible Riemannian structures with the structure of an infinite-dimensional symplectic manifold. We show that the natural action of the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms by push-forward has a group-valued momentum map that assigns to a Riemannian metric the canonical bundle. We then deduce that the Teichm"uller space and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces can be realized as symplectic orbit reduced spaces.

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