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The $p$-Weil-Petersson Teichmüller space and the quasiconformal extension of curves

We consider the correspondence between the space of $p$-Weil-Petersson curves $γ$ on the plane and the $p$-Besov space of $u=\log γ'$ on the real line for $p >1$. We prove that the variant of the Beurling-Ahlfors extension defined by using the heat kernel yields a holomorphic map for $u$ on a domain of the $p$-Besov space to the space of $p$-integrable Beltrami coefficients. This in particular gives a global real-analytic section for the Teichmüller projection from the space of $p$-integrable Beltrami coefficients to the $p$-Weil-Petersson Teichmüller space.