Convex RP^2 structures and cubic differentials under neck separation

DOI10.4310/JDG/1571882429MaRDI QIDQ2331239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John Loftin

Publication date 25 October 2019

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03895, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1571882429

zbMATH Keywords

compact Riemann surfaceconvex \(\mathbb{RP}^2\) structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30)

Abstract: Let S be a closed oriented surface of genus at least two. Labourie and the author have independently used the theory of hyperbolic affine spheres to find a natural correspondence between convex RP^2 structures on S and pairs (Sigma,U) consisting of a conformal structure Sigma on S and a holomorphic cubic differential U over Sigma. The pairs (Sigma,U$, for Sigma varying in moduli space, allow us to define natural holomorphic coordinates on the moduli space of convex RP^2 structures. We consider geometric limits of convex RP^2 structures on S in which the RP^2 structure degenerates only along a set of simple, non-intersecting, non-homotopic loops c. We classify the resulting RP^2 structures on S-c and call them regular convex RP^2 structures. We put a natural topology on the moduli space of all regular convex RP^2 structures on S and show that this space is naturally homeomorphic to the total space of the vector bundle over the Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space of curves each of whose fibers over a noded Riemann surface is the space of regular cubic differentials. In other words, we can extend our holomorphic coordinates to bordify the moduli space of convex RP^2 structures along all neck pinches. The proof relies on previous techniques of the author, Benoist-Hulin, and Dumas-Wolf, as well as some details due to Wolpert of the geometry of hyperbolic metrics on conformal surfaces in the Deligne-Mumford compactification.

Review text

For a closed oriented surface \(S\) of genus at least two, Labourie and the author have independently used the theory of hyperbolic affine spheres to find a canonical correspondence between convex \(\mathbb{RP}^2\) structures on \(S\) and pairs (\(\Sigma\);\(U\)) consisting of a conformal structure \(\Sigma\) on \(S\) and a holomorphic cubic differential \(U\) over \(\Sigma\). Some geometric limits of convex \(\mathbb{RP}^2\) structures on \(S\) are obtained in which the \(\mathbb{RP}^2\) structure degenerates only along a set of simple, non-intersecting, nontrivial, non-homotopic loops. The resulting \(\mathbb{RP}^2\) structures on the loop deleted surface are classified and called regular convex \(\mathbb{RP}^2\) structures.

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