Connected components of the strata of the moduli spaces of quadratic differentials

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DOI10.24033/ASENS.2062zbMATH Open1161.30033arXivmath/0506136OpenAlexW2951474134MaRDI QIDQ3605963FDOQ3605963


Authors: Erwan Lanneau Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 25 February 2009

Published in: Annales Scientifiques de l?tcole Normale Sup�rieure (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In two fundamental classical papers, Masur and Veech have independently proved that the Teichmueller geodesic flow acts ergodically on each connected component of each stratum of the moduli space of quadratic differentials. It is therefore interesting to have a classification of the ergodic components. Veech has proved that these strata are not necessarily connected. In a recent work, Kontsevich and Zorich have completely classified the components in the particular case where the quadratic differentials are given by the global square of Abelian differentials. Here we are interested in the complementary case. In a previous paper, we have described some particular component, namely the hyperelliptic connected components, and showed that some strata are non-connected. In this paper, we give the general classification theorem: up to four exceptional cases in low genera, the strata of meromorphic quadratic differentials are either connected, or have exactly two connected components. In this last case, one component is hyperelliptic, the other not. Our proof is based on a new approach of the so-called Jenkins-Strebel differential. We will present and use the notion of generalized permutations.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506136




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