The VMO-Teichmüller space and the variant of Beurling–Ahlfors extension by heat kernel

Abstract

We give a real-analytic section for the Teichmüller projection onto the VMO-Teichmüller space by using the variant of Beurling–Ahlfors extension by heat kernel introduced by Fefferman et al. (Ann Math 134:65–124, 1991). Based on this result, we prove that the VMO-Teichmüller space can be endowed with a real Banach manifold structure that is real-analytically equivalent to its complex Banach manifold structure. We also obtain that the VMO-Teichmüller space admits a real-analytic contraction mapping.