Weil-Petersson metric on the universal Teichmuller space II. Kahler potential and period mapping

arXivmath/0406408MaRDI QIDQ6474149FDOQ6474149

Publication date: 21 June 2004

Abstract: We study the Hilbert manifold structure on

T_{0} (1)

-- the connected component of the identity of the Hilbert manifold T(1). We characterize points on

T_{0} (1)

in terms of Bers and pre-Bers embeddings, and prove that the Grunsky operators

B_{1}

and

B_{4}

, associated with the points in

T_{0} (1)

via conformal welding, are Hilbert-Schmidt. We define a ``universal Liouville action -- a real-valued function $S S S_{1}$ on $T_{0} (1)$ , and prove that it is a K"{a}hler potential of the Weil-Petersson metric on $T_{0} (1)$ . We also prove that $S S S_{1}$ is $- f r a c 1 12 p i$ times the logarithm of the Fredholm determinant of associated quasi-circle, which generalizes classical results of Schiffer and Hawley. We define the universal period mapping $h a t c P : T (1) o c B (e l l^{2})$ of T(1) into the Banach space of bounded operators on the Hilbert space $e l l^{2}$ , prove that $h a t c P$ is a holomorphic mapping of Banach manifolds, and show that $h a t c P$ coincides with the period mapping introduced by Kurillov and Yuriev and Nag and Sullivan. We prove that the restriction of $h a t c P$ to $T_{0} (1)$ is an inclusion of $T_{0} (1)$ into the Segal-Wilson universal Grassmannian, which is a holomorphic mapping of Hilbert manifolds. We also prove that the image of the topological group $S$ of symmetric homeomorphisms of $S^{1}$ under the mapping $h a t c P$ consists of compact operators on $e l l^{2}$ .

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) General theory of univalent and multivalent functions of one complex variable (30C55) Hilbert spaces of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions (46E20) Group structures and generalizations on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B25)

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