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

Publication date 21 June 2004

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)

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 $e l l^{2}$ .

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