On the Geometry of Weil-Petersson Completion of Teichmüller Spaces

Given a surface of higher genus, we will look at the Weil-Petersson completion of the Teichmüller space of the surface, and will study the geometry induced by the Weil-Petersson distance functional. Although the completion is no longer a Riemannian manifold, it has characteristics similar to those of Cartan-Hadamard manifolds.

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Published 1 January 2004