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Weil-Petersson Geometry of the Universal Teichmüller Space

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Takhtajan, L.A., Teo, LP. (2005). Weil-Petersson Geometry of the Universal Teichmüller Space. In: Kulish, P.P., Manojlovich, N., Samtleben, H. (eds) Infinite Dimensional Algebras and Quantum Integrable Systems. Progress in Mathematics, vol 237. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7341-5_8

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