Branched projective structures on a Riemann surface and logarithmic connections (Q2338380)

Summary: We study the set \(\mathcal{P}_S\) consisting of all branched holomorphic projective structures on a compact Riemann surface \(X\) of genus \(g \geq 1\) and with a fixed branching divisor \(S := \sum_{i=1}^d n_i\cdot x_i\), where \(x_i \in X\). Under the hypothesis that \(n_i,=1\), for all \(i\), with \(d\) a positive even integer such that \(d \neq 2g-2\), we show that \(\mathcal{P}_S\) coincides with a subset of the set of all logarithmic connections with singular locus \(S\), satisfying certain geometric conditions, on the rank two holomorphic jet bundle \(J^1(Q)\), where \(Q\) is a fixed holomorphic line bundle on \(X\) such that \(Q^{\otimes 2}= TX \otimes \mathcal{O}_X(S)\). The space of all logarithmic connections of the above type is an affine space over the vector space \(H^0(X, K^{\otimes 2}_X \otimes\mathcal{O}_X(S))\) of dimension \(3g-3+d\). We conclude that \(\mathcal{P}_S\) is a subset of this affine space that has codimenison \(d\) at a generic point.