Weil-Petersson Teichm\"uller theory of surfaces of infinite conformal type

arXiv2302.06408MaRDI QIDQ6426323FDOQ6426323

Authors: Eric Schippers, Wolfgang Staubach 

Publication date: 13 February 2023

Abstract: Over the past two decades the theory of the Weil-Petersson metric has been extended to general Teichm"uller spaces of infinite type, including for example the universal Teichm"uller space. In this paper we give a survey of the main results in the Weil-Petersson geometry of infinite-dimensional Teichm"uller spaces. This includes the rigorous definition of complex Hilbert manifold structures, K"ahler geometry and global analysis, and generalizations of the period mapping. We also discuss the motivations of the theory in representation theory and physics beginning in the 1980s. Some examples of the appearance of Weil-Petersson Teichm"uller space in other fields such as fluid mechanics and two-dimensional conformal field theory are also provided.

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