Intersection numbers of polygon spaces

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04796-5MaRDI QIDQ3395546zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors José Agapito, Leonor Godinho

Publication date 11 September 2009

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2097

zbMATH Keywords

generating functionmoduli spaceflat connectionsrecursion relationequilateral polygon spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Spaces and manifolds of mappings (including nonlinear versions of 46Exx) (58D99)

Abstract: We study the intersection ring of the space $M(alph{a}_1,\mathrm{...},alph{a}_m)$ of polygons in $R^3$. We find homology cycles dual to generators of this ring and prove a recursion relation in $m$ (the number of steps) for their intersection numbers. This result is analog of the recursion relation appearing in the work of Witten and Kontsevich on moduli spaces of punctured curves and on the work of Weitsman on moduli spaces of flat connections on two-manifolds of genus $g$ with $m$ marked points. Based on this recursion formula we obtain an explicit expression for the computation of the intersection numbers of polygon spaces and use it in several examples. Among others, we study the special case of equilateral polygon spaces (where all the $alph{a}_i$ are the same) and compare our results with the expressions for these particular spaces that have been determined by Kamiyama and Tezuka. Finally, we relate our explicit formula for the intersection numbers with the generating function for intersection pairings of the moduli space of flat connections of Yoshida, as well as with equivalent expressions for polygon spaces obtained by Takakura and Konno through different techniques.

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