A comb of origami curves in the moduli space \(M_{3}\) with three dimensional closure (Q2642683)

The authors construct a family of Teichmüller curves in moduli space of genus \(3\), whose closure is a Hurwitz space of dimension \(3\). Such a construction is provided by origamis, that is, finite index subgroups of a free group of rank \(2\) (seen as a group of hyperbolic isometries of hyperbolic plane and quotient being a punctured torus). The construction is very explicit and well written. In the first part of the paper the notion of Teichmüller curves and the corresponding Veech groups (and also origamis) is discussed. They recall the construction, done by the same authors in a previous paper [Math. Nachr. 281, No. 2, 219--237 (2008; Zbl 1159.14012), preprint \url{arXiv:math/0509195}], of a particular origami which provides a one-dimensional family of Riemann surfaces of genus \(3\) admitting a group of conformal automorphisms of order \(16\). This origami produces a Teichmüller curve in the moduli space of genus \(3\). Then, by looking at conformal involutions on it, they are able to construct another origamis (an infinitely countable many of them) with the property that each of these origamis produces a Teichmüller curve that intersects the Teichmüller curve produced by the original one. As they are able to describe the algebraic projective quartics representing the (classes of) Riemann surfaces of genus \(3\) of these new origamis, they obtains a concrete Hurwitz space of dimension \(3\), which turns out to be the closure in moduli space of the union of all these origamis.