Configuration spaces of points on the circle and hyperbolic dehn fillings

A purely combinatorial compactification of the configuration space of n( ≥ 5) distinct points with equal weights in the real projective line was introduced by M. Yoshida. We geometrize it so that it will be a real hyperbolic cone-manifold of finite volume with dimension n - 3. Then, we vary weights for points. The geometrization still makes sense and yields a deformation. The effectivity of deformations arisen in this manner will be locally described in the existing deformation theory of hyperbolic structures when n - 3 = 2, 3.