Connectivity of complexes of separating curves

DOI10.4171/GGD/189zbMATH Open1271.57054arXiv1001.0823MaRDI QIDQ355387FDOQ355387

Eduard Looijenga

Publication date: 24 July 2013

Published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the separated curve complex of a closed orientable surface of genus g is (g-3)-connected. We also obtain a connectivity property for a separated curve complex of the open surface that is obtained by removing a finite set from a closed one, but it is then assumed that the removed set is endowed with a partition and that the separating curves respect that partition. These connectivity statements have implications for the algebraic topology of the moduli space of curves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0823

zbMATH Keywords

moduli space of curvesseparating curve complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Chain complexes in algebraic topology (55U15)

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