Colliding holes in Riemann surfaces and quantum cluster algebras

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AA9729zbMATH Open1390.13066arXiv1509.07044OpenAlexW2964156953MaRDI QIDQ4600985FDOQ4600985

Marta Mazzocco, Leonid Chekhov

Publication date: 18 January 2018

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we describe a new type of surgery for non-compact Riemann surfaces that naturally appear when colliding two holes or two sides of the same hole in an orientable Riemann surface with boundary (and possibly orbifold points). As a result of this surgery, bordered cusps appear on the boundary components of the Riemann surface. In Poincar'e uniformization, these bordered cusps correspond to ideal triangles in the fundamental domain. We introduce the notion of bordered cusped Teichm"uller space and endow it with a Poisson structure, quantization of which is achieved with a canonical quantum ordering. We give a complete combinatorial description of the bordered cusped Teichm"uller space by introducing the notion of maximal cusped lamination, a lamination consisting of geodesics arcs between bordered cusps and closed geodesics homotopic to the boundaries such that it triangulates the Riemann surface. We show that each bordered cusp carries a natural decoration, i.e. a choice of a horocycle, so that the lengths of the arcs in the maximal cusped lamination are defined as $lambda$-lengths in Thurston--Penner terminology. We compute the Goldman bracket explicitly in terms of these $lambda$-lengths and show that the Mapping Class Group acts as a generalized cluster algebra mutation. From the physical point of view, our construction provides an explicit coordinatization of moduli spaces of open/closed string worldsheets and their quantization.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07044

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zbMATH Keywords

quantizationDarboux coordinatesRiemann surfaces with boundaryTeichmüller spacealgebras of geodesic functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann surfaces; Weierstrass points; gap sequences (14H55) Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Cluster algebras (13F60) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

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