The Teichmüller Space
摘要
The Teichmüller space of a smooth surface S is the space of hyperbolic metrics on S, modulo diffeomorphisms isotopic to the identity. Equivalently, it parameterizes conformal (or complex) structures on S under the same equivalence. Via the holonomy representation, Teichmüller space can also be identified with a connected component of the \(\mathrm {PSL}_2(\mathbb {R})\) character variety. In this chapter, we set the main definitions and exhibit the holonomy representation explicitly.