On the cohomological dimension of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces

DOI10.1215/00127094-0000004XzbMATH Open1388.32007arXiv1405.2608MaRDI QIDQ2012193FDOQ2012193

Gabriele Mondello

Publication date: 28 July 2017

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The moduli space of Riemann surfaces of genus $ggeq2$ is (up to a finite 'etale cover) a complex manifold and so it makes sense to speak of its Dolbeault cohomological dimension. The conjecturally optimal bound is $g-2$. This expectation is verified in low genus and supported by Harer's computation of its de Rham cohomological dimension and by vanishing results in the tautological intersection ring. In this paper we prove that such dimension is at most $2g-2$. We also prove an analogous bound for the moduli space of Riemann surfaces with marked points. The key step is to show that the Dolbeault cohomological dimension of each stratum of translation surfaces is at most $g$. In order to do that, we produce an exhaustion function whose complex Hessian has controlled index: the construction of such a function relies on some basic geometric properties of translation surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2608

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacecohomological dimensionRiemann surfacestranslation surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10)

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