Moduli spaces of metric graphs of genus 1 with marks on vertices

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2008.07.017MaRDI QIDQ2378308zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dmitry N. Kozlov

Publication date 7 January 2009

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4364

zbMATH Keywords

metric graph, moduli space, scanning homotopy, tropical geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph theory (05C99) Special varieties (14M99) Classification of homotopy type (55P15) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: In this paper we study homotopy type of certain moduli spaces of metric graphs. More precisely, we show that the spaces $M{G}_{1,n}^v$, which parametrize the isometry classes of metric graphs of genus 1 with $n$ marks on vertices are homotopy equivalent to the spaces $T{M}_{1,n}$, which are the moduli spaces of tropical curves of genus 1 with $n$ marked points. Our proof proceeds by providing a sequence of explicit homotopies, with key role played by the so-called scanning homotopy. We conjecture that our result generalizes to the case of arbitrary genus.

Review text

Let \(MG_{g,n}^{\mathfrak v}\) denote the moduli space of isometry classes of metric graphs of genus \(g\) with \(n\) marks on vertices, and let \(TM_{g,n}\) be that of tropical curves of genus \(g\) with \(n\) marked points. In this paper, the author studies the homotopy type of the moduli space \(MG_{g,n}^{\mathfrak v}\) for the case \(g=1\) and he proves that it is homotopy equivalent to the moduli space \(TM_{1,n}\) by giving the explicit homotopy equivalences. His main method is based on the \textit{scanning} homotopy. He also conjectures that there will be a homotopy equivalence \(MG_{g,n}^{\mathfrak v}\simeq TM_{g,n}\) for \(g>1\).

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• Integral homology of the moduli space of tropical curves of genus 1 with marked points
• Moduli spaces of tropical curves of higher genus with marked points and homotopy colimits
• Tropical moduli spaces as symmetric Δ$\Delta$‐complexes

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