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Coarse and synthetic Weil–Petersson geometry: quasi-flats, geodesics and relative hyperbolicity

Jeffrey Brock and Howard Masur

Geometry & Topology 12 (2008) 2453–2495

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2008.12.2453

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