On complex extension of the Liouville map

Abstract

The Liouville map assigns to each point in the Teichmüller space a positive Radon measure on the space of geodesics of the universal covering of the base Riemann surface. This construction which was introduced by Bonahon is valid for both finite and infinite Riemann surfaces. Bonahon and Sözen proved that the Liouville map is differentiable for closed Riemann surfaces and the second author extended this result to all other Riemann surfaces. Otal proved that the Liouville map is real analytic using an idea from the geometric analysis. The purpose of this note is to give another proof of Otal's result using a complex analysis approach.