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The Weil-Petersson geometry on the thick part of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces
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Abstract:

In the thick part of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces, we show that the sectional curvature of the Weil-Petersson metric is bounded independently of the genus of the surface.
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Additional Information
  • Zheng Huang
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
  • MR Author ID: 759027
  • Email: zhengh@umich.edu
  • Received by editor(s): March 16, 2006
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 26, 2006
  • Published electronically: June 21, 2007
  • Communicated by: Richard A. Wentworth
  • © Copyright 2007 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 3309-3316
  • MSC (2000): Primary 30F60, 32G15
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-07-08868-5
  • MathSciNet review: 2322763