Asymptotic behavior of the Kawazumi-Zhang invariant for degenerating Riemann surfaces

DOI10.4310/AJM.2014.V18.N3.A7zbMATH Open1360.14083arXiv1207.2353MaRDI QIDQ461940FDOQ461940

Authors: Robin de Jong 

Publication date: 15 October 2014

Published in: The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Around 2008 N. Kawazumi and S. Zhang introduced a new fundamental numerical invariant for compact Riemann surfaces. One way of viewing the Kawazumi-Zhang invariant is as a quotient of two natural hermitian metrics with the same first Chern form on the line bundle of holomorphic differentials. In this paper we determine precise formulas, up to and including constant terms, for the asymptotic behavior of the Kawazumi-Zhang invariant for degenerating Riemann surfaces. As a corollary we state precise asymptotic formulas for the beta-invariant introduced around 2000 by R. Hain and D. Reed. These formulas are a refinement of a result Hain and Reed prove in their paper. We illustrate our results with some explicit calculations on degenerating genus two surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2353

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zbMATH Keywords

Green's functionsstable curvesArakelov metricCeresa cycleKawazumi-Zhang invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibrations, degenerations in algebraic geometry (14D06) Families, moduli of curves (analytic) (14H15) Period matrices, variation of Hodge structure; degenerations (32G20)

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