Kobayashi’s and Teichmüller’s metrics on the Teichmüller space of symmetric circle homeomorphisms

• DOI: 10.1007/s10114-011-9045-7
• Publication Date: 2011-02-03T14:36:27Z
• Authors: Jun Hu; Yun Ping Jiang; Zhe Wang
• Keywords: Teichmüller space

We give a direct proof of a result of Earle, Gardiner and Lakic, that is, Kobayashi’s metric and Teichmuller’s metric coincide with each other on the Teichmuller space of symmetric circle homeomorphisms.