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

Author(s): Zheng Huang
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 3309-3316.
MSC (2000): Primary 30F60, 32G15
Posted: June 21, 2007
MathSciNet review: 2322763
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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
Email: zhengh@umich.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-07-08868-5
PII: S 0002-9939(07)08868-5
Received by editor(s): March 16, 2006
Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 26, 2006
Posted: June 21, 2007
Communicated by: Richard A. Wentworth
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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