Tropicalizing the moduli space of spin curves

DOI10.1007/S00029-020-0539-YMaRDI QIDQ2297845zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lucia Caporaso, Margarida Melo, Marco Pacini

Publication date 20 February 2020

Published in Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07803

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spaceskeletonstable spin curvetheta-characteristictropical curvetropicalization map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Geometric aspects of tropical varieties (14T20)

Abstract: We study the tropicalization of the moduli space of algebraic spin curves, exhibit its combinatorial stratification and prove that the strata are irreducible. We construct the moduli space of tropical spin curves, prove that it is isomorphic to the skeleton of the Berkovich analytification of the moduli space of algebraic spin curves, and give a geometric interpretation of the retraction map in terms of a tropicalization map.

Review text

The authors in this article study the geometry of the moduli space of spin curves by using tropical geometric techniques. A spin curve \(X\) is a projective curve of genus \(g\) along with a choice of a theta characteristic, that is, is a square root of the dualizing sheaf of \(X\). The moduli space of such curves, \(\overline{S}_g\), was constructed by \textit{M. Cornalba} [in: Proceedings of the first college on Riemann surfaces held in Trieste, Italy, November 9-December 18, 1987. Teaneck, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co.. 560--589 (1989; Zbl 0800.14011)]. It comes together with a natural map \[ \pi:\overline{S}_g \longrightarrow \overline{M}_g \] to the moduli space of stable curves, whose fiber over a curve \(X\) parametrizes spin structures on \(X\). The authors define combinatorial analogues of spin curves, as spin tropical curves and construct the tropical analogue \(\overline{S}_g ^{\mathrm{Trop}}\) of the moduli space \(\overline{S}_g \). One of the main results of the article shows that there is a natural map \[ \pi^{\mathrm{Trop}}:\overline{S}_g ^{\mathrm{Trop}} \longrightarrow \overline{M}_g^{\mathrm{Trop}} \] to the moduli space of tropical curves, which arises as a morphism of extended generalized cone complexes. The fiber of this map is descibed in terms the set of spin structures on a tropical curve associated to a spin curve. The authors then investigate the moduli space of \(n\)-pointed stable spin curves \( \overline{S}_{g,n} \) and describe a stratification of it using spin graphs. They also describe the skeleton of the Berkovich analityfication of \( \overline{S}_{g,n} \) and prove that that there is an isomorphism between this skeleton and the moduli space of spin tropical curves.

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