Counting generalized Jenkins-Strebel differentials

DOI10.1007/S10711-013-9877-7zbMATH Open1290.32012arXiv1212.1714OpenAlexW2155886482MaRDI QIDQ2452179FDOQ2452179

Authors: Jayadev S. Athreya, Alex Eskin, Anton Zorich 

Publication date: 30 May 2014

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the combinatorial geometry of "lattice" Jenkins--Strebel differentials with simple zeroes and simple poles on $mathbbC{P}^1$ and of the corresponding counting functions. Developing the results of M. Kontsevich we evaluate the leading term of the symmetric polynomial counting the number of such "lattice" Jenkins-Strebel differentials having all zeroes on a single singular layer. This allows us to express the number of general "lattice" Jenkins-Strebel differentials as an appropriate weighted sum over decorated trees. The problem of counting Jenkins-Strebel differentials is equivalent to the problem of counting pillowcase covers, which serve as integer points in appropriate local coordinates on strata of moduli spaces of meromorphic quadratic differentials. This allows us to relate our counting problem to calculations of volumes of these strata . A very explicit expression for the volume of any stratum of meromorphic quadratic differentials recently obtained by the authors leads to an interesting combinatorial identity for our sums over trees.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1714

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zbMATH Keywords

meromorphic quadratic differentialJenkins-Strebel differentialpillowcase covers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30)

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