Signature Calculation of the Area Hermitian Form on Some Spaces of Polygons

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-97560-9_8zbMATH Open1504.58009arXiv1803.03640OpenAlexW2789579867MaRDI QIDQ5055441FDOQ5055441

Ismail Saglam

Publication date: 13 December 2022

Published in: In the Tradition of Thurston II (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This chapter is motivated by the paper by Thurston on triangulations of the sphere and singular flat metrics on the sphere. Thurston locally parametrized the moduli space of singular flat metrics on the sphere with prescribed positive curvature data by the complex hyperbolic space of appropriate dimension. This work can be considered as a generalization of signature calculation of the Hermitian form that he made in his paper. The moduli space of singular flat metrics having unit area on the sphere with prescribed curvature data can be locally parametrized by certain spaces of polygons. This can be done by cutting singular flat spheres through length minimizing geodesics from a fixed singular point to the others. In that case the space of polygons is a complex vector space of dimension $n-1$ when there are $n+1$ singular points. Also there is natural area Hermitian form of signature $(1,n-2)$ on this vector space. In this chapter we calculate the signature of the area Hermitian form on some spaces of polygons which locally parametrize the moduli space of singular flat metrics having unit area on the sphere with one singular point of negative curvature. The formula we obtain depends only on the sum of the curvatures of the singular points having positive curvature. This paper will appear in the book "In the tradition of Thurston, Vol. II", Springer, 2022.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03640

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zbMATH Keywords

Hermitian formpolygonsingular flat surfaceAlexandrov unfolding processsingular flat metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multilinear algebra, tensor calculus (15A69) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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