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Strata separation for the Weil–Petersson completion and gradient estimates for length functions

    https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793525321500667Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

    In general, it is difficult to measure distances in the Weil–Petersson metric on Teichmüller space. Here we consider the distance between strata in the Weil–Petersson completion of Teichmüller space of a surface of finite type. Wolpert showed that for strata whose closures do not intersect, there is a definite separation independent of the topology of the surface. We prove that the optimal value for this minimal separation is a constant δ1,1 and show that it is realized exactly by strata whose nodes intersect once. We also give a nearly sharp estimate for δ1,1 and give a lower bound on the size of the gap between δ1,1 and the other distances. A major component of the paper is an effective version of Wolpert’s upper bound on α,β, the inner product of the Weil–Petersson gradient of length functions. We further bound the distance to the boundary of Teichmüller space of a hyperbolic surface in terms of the length of the systole of the surface. We also obtain new lower bounds on the systole for the Weil–Petersson metric on the moduli space of a punctured torus.

    AMSC: 30F60, 32G15

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