{ "id": "math/0312419", "version": "v1", "published": "2003-12-22T23:16:25.000Z", "updated": "2003-12-22T23:16:25.000Z", "title": "Asymptotic flatness of the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichmuller space", "authors": [ "Zheng Huang" ], "comment": "26 pages, to appear on Geometriae Dedicata", "categories": [ "math.DG", "math.CV" ], "abstract": "The sectional curvature of the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichmuller space is known to be negative. We show that this Weil-Petersson sectional curvature is not pinched from above by any negative constants, i.e., there is no negative upper bound.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2003-12-22T23:16:25.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "32G15", "53C21", "30F60" ], "keywords": [ "weil-petersson metric", "teichmuller space", "asymptotic flatness", "weil-petersson sectional curvature", "negative upper bound" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 26, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2003math.....12419H" } } }