Families of superelliptic curves, complex braid groups and generalized Dehn twists

DOI10.1007/S11856-020-2040-XMaRDI QIDQ2200063zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Callegaro, Mario Salvetti

Publication date 15 September 2020

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11968

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsintegral homologysuperelliptic curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We consider the universal family $E_n^d$ of superelliptic curves: each curve $Sigm{a}_n^d$ in the family is a $d$-fold covering of the unit disk, totally ramified over a set $P$ of $n$ distinct points; $Sigm{a}_n^{d}hookrightarrow{E}_n^{d}o{C}_n$ is a fibre bundle, where $C_n$ is the configuration space of $n$ distinct points. We find that $E_n^d$ is the classifying space for the complex braid group of type $B(d,d,n)$ and we compute a big part of the integral homology of $E_n^d,$ including a complete calculation of the stable groups over finite fields by means of Poincar`e series. The computation of the main part of the above homology reduces to the computation of the homology of the classical braid group with coefficients in the first homology group of $Sigm{a}_n^d,$ endowed with the monodromy action. While giving a geometric description of such monodromy of the above bundle, we introduce generalized $1overd$-twists, associated to each standard generator of the braid group, which reduce to standard Dehn twists for $d=2.$

Review text

The present paper deals with the homology of the families of superelliptic curves \[ \text{E}_n^d = \{(\text{P},z,y) \in \text{C}_n \times \text{D} \times \mathbb{C},\ y^d = (z-x_1) \dots (z-x_n)\}, \] where D is the open unit disk in \(\mathbb{C}\), \(\text{C}_n\) is the configuration space of \(n\) distinct unordered points in D, and \(\text{P} = \{x_1, \dots, x_n\} \in \text{C}_n\). Given P, the curve \[ \Sigma_n^d = \{(z,y) \in \text{D} \times \mathbb{C},\ y^d = (z-x_1) \dots (z-x_n)\} \] is a \(d\)-fold covering of D, totally ramified over P, and there is a fibration \(\pi : \text{E}_n^d \rightarrow \text{C}_n\) which maps \(\Sigma_n^d\) onto its set of ramification points. The case \(d=2\) of hyperelliptic curves was studied by the authors in [Isr. J. Math. 230, No. 2, 653--692 (2019; Zbl 1419.14039)]. Now, they consider a generic \(d\), and this paper is a natural sequel of the former. The main results are anticipated in Section 1, as Theorems 1.1--1.4. The first of them states that the space \( \text{E}_n^d\) is a classifying space for the complex braid group of type \(\text{B}(d,d,n)\). Then, the homology of the complex braid group of type \(\text{B}(d,d,n)\) over finite fields when \(d\) or \(n\) is odd is computed, and their stable homology groups are described. Explicit examples for \(3 \leq d \leq 6\) are given in the final section of the paper. Of course, when specializing the results to \(d=2\), the results of the earlier paper are recovered.

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