Moduli spaces M₂,1 and M₃,1

DOI10.1007/S10688-010-0015-0MaRDI QIDQ2430775zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yu. Yu. Kochetkov

Publication date 8 April 2011

Published in Functional Analysis and Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10688-010-0015-0

zbMATH Keywords

cellular decompositionmoduli of curvesribbon graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05)

Review text

In Kontsevich's famous proof of Witten's conjecture on 2-D gravity, he used a combinatorial structure associated to the moduli space of marked curves arising from ribbon graphs and Jenkins-Strebel differentials. The present paper uses this construction to define a simplicial complex associated to \(M_{g,1}\) for each \(g>0\), and subsequently a cell-structure on \(M_{g,1}\). For \(g=2\), a list of the highest-dimensional cells (there are eight of them) is given and their adjacencies are described. For \(g=3\), a similar result is obtained. Both cases are quite computational, although for \(g=2\) there is conceptual combinatorics/geometry, whereas for \(g=3\) the combinatorics become unwieldy and are verified using \texttt{MAPLE}.

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Uses Software

• Maple

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