Multiple saddle connections on flat surfaces and the principal boundry of the moduli spaces of quadratic differentials

DOI10.1007/S00039-008-0678-3zbMATH Open1169.30017arXivmath/0402197OpenAlexW2017602611WikidataQ101231648 ScholiaQ101231648MaRDI QIDQ1024671FDOQ1024671

Anton Zorich, Howard Masur

Publication date: 17 June 2009

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe typical degenerations of quadratic differentials thus describing ``generic cusps of the moduli space of meromorphic quadratic differentials with at most simple poles. The part of the boundary of the moduli space which does not arise from ``generic degenerations is often negligible in problems involving information on compactification of the moduli space. However, even for a typical degeneration one may have several short loops on the Riemann surface which shrink simultaneously. We explain this phenomenon, describe all rigid configurations of short loops, present a detailed description of analogs of desingularized stable curves arising here, and show how one can reconstruct a Riemann surface endowed with a quadratic differential which is close to a ``cusp by the corresponding point at the principal boundary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402197

zbMATH Keywords

quadratic differentialsflat surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30)

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