The weil-petersson hessian of length on teichm¨ uller space

Michael Wolf Rice University

Differential Geometry mathscidoc:1609.10267

Journal of Differential Geometry, 91, (1), 129-169, 2012
We present a brief but nearly self-contained proof of a formula for the Weil-Petersson Hessian of the geodesic length of a closed curve (either simple or not simple) on a hyperbolic surface. The formula is the sum of the integrals of two naturally defined positive functions over the geodesic, proving convexity of this functional over Teichmuller space (due to Wolpert (1987)). We then estimate this Hessian from below in terms of local quantities and distance along the geodesic. The formula extends to proper arcs on punctured hyperbolic surfaces, and the estimate to laminations. Wolpert’s result that the Thurston metric is a multiple of the Weil-Petersson metric directly follows on taking a limit of the formula over an appropriate sequence of curves. We give further applications to upper bounds of the Hessian, especially near pinching loci, recover through a geometric argumentWolpert’s result on the convexity of length to the half-power, and give a lower bound for growth of length in terms of twist.
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@inproceedings{michael2012the,
  title={THE WEIL-PETERSSON HESSIAN OF LENGTH ON TEICHM¨ ULLER SPACE},
  author={Michael Wolf},
  url={http://archive.ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/pacm_paperurl/20160913225811690007929},
  booktitle={Journal of Differential Geometry},
  volume={91},
  number={1},
  pages={129-169},
  year={2012},
}
Michael Wolf. THE WEIL-PETERSSON HESSIAN OF LENGTH ON TEICHM¨ ULLER SPACE. 2012. Vol. 91. In Journal of Differential Geometry. pp.129-169. http://archive.ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/pacm_paperurl/20160913225811690007929.
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