%0 Journal Article %T Positivity of the renormalized volume of almost-Fuchsian hyperbolic $3$-manifolds %A Corina Ciobotaru %A Sergiu Moroianu %J Mathematics %D 2014 %I arXiv %X We prove that the renormalized volume of almost-Fuchsian hyperbolic $3$-manifolds is non-negative, with equality only for Fuchsian manifolds. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2555v2