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ISSN 1088-6834 (online) ISSN 0894-0347 (print)

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The Weil-Petersson metric and volumes of 3-dimensional hyperbolic convex cores
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by Jeffrey F. Brock
J. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (2003), 495-535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-03-00424-7
Published electronically: March 4, 2003

Abstract:

We present a coarse interpretation of the Weil-Petersson distance $d_{\mathrm {WP}}(X,Y)$ between two finite area hyperbolic Riemann surfaces $X$ and $Y$ using a graph of pants decompositions introduced by Hatcher and Thurston. The combinatorics of the pants graph reveal a connection between Riemann surfaces and hyperbolic 3-manifolds conjectured by Thurston: the volume of the convex core of the quasi-Fuchsian manifold $Q(X,Y)$ with $X$ and $Y$ in its conformal boundary is comparable to the Weil-Petersson distance $d_{\mathrm {WP}}(X,Y)$. In applications, we relate the Weil-Petersson distance to the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set and the lowest eigenvalue of the Laplacian for $Q(X,Y)$, and give a new finiteness criterion for geometric limits.
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Bibliographic Information
  • Jeffrey F. Brock
  • Affiliation: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago, 5734 S. University Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637
  • Email: brock@math.uchicago.edu
  • Received by editor(s): October 30, 2001
  • Published electronically: March 4, 2003
  • Additional Notes: Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0072133 and an NSF postdoctoral fellowship.
  • © Copyright 2003 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (2003), 495-535
  • MSC (2000): Primary 30F40; Secondary 30F60, 37F30
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-03-00424-7
  • MathSciNet review: 1969203