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Simple geodesics and Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces

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Mirzakhani, M. Simple geodesics and Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces. Invent. math. 167, 179–222 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-006-0013-2

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