On the cohomological dimension of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces

DOI10.1215/00127094-0000004XMaRDI QIDQ2012193zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gabriele Mondello

Publication date 28 July 2017

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

cohomological dimensionmoduli spaceRiemann surfacestranslation surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

Let \(S_{g, n}\) be a compact Riemann surface of genus \(g\geq 2\) with \(n\geq 0\) points removed. Denote by \(T(g, n)\), \(M(g, n)\) and \(\mathrm{Mod}(g, n)\) the Teichmüller space, Riemann moduli space and Teichmüller modular group (or mapping class group) of \(S_{g, n}\), respectively. It is well known that \(\mathrm{Mod}(g, n)\) acts discontinuously on the complex manifold \(T(g, n)\) so that \(M(g, n)=T(g, n)/\mathrm{Mod}(g, n)\) is a complex analytic orbifold. So it makes sense to speak of Dolbeault cohomology with coefficients in a holomorphic vector bundle and of Dolbeault cohomological dimension \(\text{coh-dim}_{\text{Dol}}(M(g, n))\). Looijenga conjectured that \[ \text{coh-dim}_{\text{Dol}}(M(g, n))=g-2+\zeta_n, \] with \(\zeta_0=0\) and \(\zeta_n=1\) for \(n>0\). The main result of the paper is the following estimate \[ \text{coh-dim}_{\text{Dol}}(M(g, n))\leq (g-2+\zeta_n)+g. \]

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