Spectral networks and Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates

DOI10.1007/S11005-016-0842-XzbMATH Open1345.32020arXiv1312.2979OpenAlexW2144770133MaRDI QIDQ295874FDOQ295874

Lotte Hollands, Andrew Neitzke

Publication date: 14 June 2016

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explain that spectral networks are a unifying framework that incorporates both shear (Fock-Goncharov) and length-twist (Fenchel-Nielsen) coordinate systems on moduli spaces of flat SL(2,C) connections, in the following sense. Given a spectral network W on a punctured Riemann surface C, we explain the process of "abelianization" which relates flat SL(2)-connections (with an additional structure called "W-framing") to flat C*-connections on a covering. For any W, abelianization gives a construction of a local Darboux coordinate system on the moduli space of W-framed flat connections. There are two special types of spectral network, combinatorially dual to ideal triangulations and pants decompositions; these two types of network lead to Fock-Goncharov and Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates respectively.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2979

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacesflat connections\(\mathrm{SL}(2)\)-connectionsFenchel-Nielson coordinatesspectral networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Holomorphic bundles and generalizations (32L05) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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