Enumerating Hassett’s Wall and Chamber Decomposition of the Moduli Space of Weighted Stable Curves

DOI10.1080/10586458.2018.1428132MaRDI QIDQ4960478zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kenneth Ascher, Connor Dubé, Daniel Gershenson, Elaine Hou

Publication date 16 April 2020

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03663

zbMATH Keywords

birational geometrylinear threshold functionsmoduli spacesstable curveswall-and-chamber

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complexity of computation (including implicit computational complexity) (03D15) Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10)

Abstract: Hassett constructed a class of modular compactifications of the moduli space of pointed curves by adding weights to the marked points. This leads to a natural wall and chamber decomposition of the domain of admissible weights where the moduli space and universal family remain constant inside a chamber, and may change upon crossing a wall. The goal of this paper is to count the number of chambers in this decomposition. We relate these chambers to a class of boolean functions known as linear threshold functions (LTFs), and discover a subclass of LTFs which are in bijection with the chambers. Using this relation, we prove an asymptotic formula for the number of chambers, and compute the exact number of chambers for moduli spaces of weighted stable curves with at most 9 points. In addition, we provide an algorithm for the enumeration of the chambers and prove results in computational complexity.

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