Teichmueller flow and Weil-Petersson flow

Ursula Hamenstaedt

Published 2015-05-05Version 1

For a non-exceptional oriented surface S let Q(S) be the moduli space of area one quadratic differentials. We show that there is a Borel subset E of Q(S) which is invariant under the Teichmueller flow F^t and of full measure for every invariant Borel probability measure, and there is a measurable conjugacy of the restriction of F^t to E into the Weil-Petersson flow. This conjugacy induces a continuous injection H of the space of invariant Borel probability measures for F^t into the space of invariant Borel probability measures for the Weil-Petersson flow. The map H is not surjective, but its image contains the Lebesgue Liouville measure.