Handbook of Teichmüller Theory

This volume is the sixth in a series dedicated to Teichmuller theory in a broad sense, including various moduli and deformation spaces, and the study of mapping class groups. It is divided into five parts: Part A: The metric and the analytic theory Part B: The group theory Part C: Representation theory and generalized structures Part D: The Grothendieck-Teichmuller theory Part E: Sources The topics surveyed include Grothendieck's construction of the analytic structure of Teichmuller...
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This volume is the sixth in a series dedicated to Teichmuller theory in a broad sense, including various moduli and deformation spaces, and the study of mapping class groups. It is divided into five parts: Part A: The metric and the analytic theory Part B: The group theory Part C: Representation theory and generalized structures Part D: The Grothendieck-Teichmuller theory Part E: Sources The topics surveyed include Grothendieck's construction of the analytic structure of Teichmuller space, identities on the geodesic length spectrum of hyperbolic surfaces (including Mirzakhani's application to the computation of Weil-Petersson volumes), moduli spaces of configurations spaces, the Teichmuller tower with the action of the Galois group on dessins d'enfants, and several other actions related to surfaces. The last part contains three papers by Teichmuller's famous paper Extremale quasikonforme Abbildungen und quadratische Differentiale. The handbook is addressed to researchers and to graduate students.