A tour through Mirzakhani’s work on moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces

DOI10.1090/BULL/1687zbMATH Open1452.32003arXiv1905.01753OpenAlexW3005466694MaRDI QIDQ5122995FDOQ5122995

Authors: Alex Wright 

Publication date: 25 September 2020

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We survey Mirzakhani's work relating to Riemann surfaces, which spans about 20 papers. We target the discussion at a broad audience of non-experts.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01753

zbMATH Keywords

moduli of Riemann surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to several complex variables and analytic spaces (32-02)

Cites Work

• The symplectic nature of fundamental groups of surfaces
• Interval exchange transformations and measured foliations
• The Poisson boundary of the mapping class group
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• Invariant measures and the set of exceptions to Littlewood's conjecture
• Intersection theory on the moduli space of curves and the matrix Airy function
• Mixing, counting, and equidistribution in Lie groups
• Hurwitz numbers and intersections on moduli spaces of curves.
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• Lectures on symplectic geometry
• Two dimensional gauge theories revisited
• Graphs on surfaces and their applications. Appendix by Don B. Zagier
• Deviation of ergodic averages for area-preserving flows on surfaces of higher genus
• Invariant and stationary measures for the \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\) action on moduli space
• Translation surfaces and their orbit closures: an introduction for a broad audience
• Dynamics of \(\text{SL}_2(\mathbb R)\) over moduli space in genus two
• Splitting mixed Hodge structures over affine invariant manifolds
• Isolation, equidistribution, and orbit closures for the \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\) action on moduli space
• The Nielsen realization problem
• Stationary measures and closed invariants on homogeneous spaces
• Geodesics with bounded intersection number on surfaces are sparsely distributed
• Exponential mixing for the Teichmüller flow
• Weil-Petersson volumes and intersection theory on the moduli space of curves
• Families of Riemann surfaces and Weil-Petersson geometry
• Simple geodesics and Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces
• Everything is illuminated
• Invariant measures for actions of unipotent groups over local fields on homogeneous spaces
• Growth of the number of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces
• Counting curves in hyperbolic surfaces
• Ergodic Actions of the Mapping Class Group
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Measure rigidity for random dynamics on surfaces and related skew products
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Introduction to Teichmüller theory and its applications to dynamics of interval exchange transformations, flows on surfaces and billiards
• The boundary of an affine invariant submanifold
• Rank two affine submanifolds in \(\mathcal H(2,2)\) and \(\mathcal H(3,1)\)
• Cusps and the family hyperbolic metric
• Ergodic Theory of the Earthquake Flow
• Nondivergence of horocyclic flows on moduli space
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Lengths of closed geodesics on random surfaces of large genus
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Growth of Weil-Petersson volumes and random hyperbolic surface of large genus
• Random hyperbolic surfaces and measured laminations
• The Teichmüller geodesic flow
• Simple geodesics and a series constant over Teichmüller space
• Lattice point asymptotics and volume growth on Teichmüller space
• FLAT CONNECTIONS ON ORIENTED 2-MANIFOLDS
• Random construction of Riemann surfaces
• Ergodic Theory of the Space of Measured Laminations
• On a class of geodesics in Teichmüller space
• On the homology of the moduli space of stable curves
• Statistical hyperbolicity in Teichmüller space
• Invertible cohomological field theories and Weil-Petersson volumes
• Mirzakhani's volume recursion and approach for the Witten-Kontsevich theorem on moduli tautological intersection numbers
• Moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces and their Weil-Petersson volumes
• Invariant Radon measures on measured lamination space
• Teichmüller dynamics, dilation tori and piecewise affine circle homeomorphisms
• A Simple Proof of a Theorem of Schur
• Counting closed geodesics in strata
• Cylinder deformations in orbit closures of translation surfaces
• Towards large genus asymptotics of intersection numbers on moduli spaces of curves
• Weil-Petersson volumes and cone surfaces
• Counting closed geodesics in moduli space
• A dilogarithm identity on moduli spaces of curves
• \(\mathrm{GL}_2\mathbb{R}\) orbit closures in hyperelliptic components of strata
• The algebraic hull of the Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle
• The Weil-Petersson and Thurston symplectic forms
• Harmonicity of quasiconformal measures and Poisson boundaries of hyperbolic spaces
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The work of Einsiedler, Katok and Lindenstrauss on the Littlewood conjecture
• Shift coordinates, stretch lines and polyhedral structures for Teichmüller space
• Identities on hyperbolic manifolds
• Cubic curves and totally geodesic subvarieties of moduli space
• From rational billiards to dynamics on moduli spaces
• ENUMERATION OF MEANDERS AND MASUR–VEECH VOLUMES
• Counting square-tiled surfaces with prescribed real and imaginary foliations and connections to Mirzakhani's asymptotics for simple closed hyperbolic geodesics
• A short overview of the "Topological recursion"
• Skinning maps are finite-to-one
• Unipotent flows and applications
• Ratner's theorem on \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb R)\)-invariant measures
• Genericity on curves and applications: pseudo-integrable billiards, Eaton lenses and gap distributions
• Full-rank affine invariant submanifolds
• Billiards, quadrilaterals and moduli spaces
• Cusp excursions for the earthquake flow on the once-punctured torus
• Geodesic currents and counting problems
• Counting One-Sided Simple Closed Geodesics on Fuchsian Thrice Punctured Projective Planes
• Counting problems in moduli space
• The WYSIWYG compactification
• Mirzakhani’s recursion formula on Weil–Petersson volume and applications
• Sperner's Colorings, Hypergraph Labeling Problems and Fair Division
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The Magic Wand Theorem of A. Eskin and M. Mirzakhani
• On an early paper of Maryam Mirzakhani
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Sperner’s Colorings and Optimal Partitioning of the Simplex
• Maryam Mirzakhani: 1977–2017

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• Masur-Veech volumes, frequencies of simple closed geodesics, and intersection numbers of moduli spaces of curves
• Some generalizations of Mirzakhani's recursion and Masur-Veech volumes via topological recursions
• GOE statistics on the moduli space of surfaces of large genus
• A random cover of a compact hyperbolic surface has relative spectral gap \(\frac{3}{16}-\varepsilon\)
• Benjamini-Schramm convergence and spectra of random hyperbolic surfaces of high genus
• Spectral distribution of twisted Laplacian on typical hyperbolic surfaces of high genus
• Towards optimal spectral gaps in large genus
• Enumerative geometry of surfaces. Abstracts from the workshop held June 13--19, 2021 (hybrid meeting)
• Unicellular maps vs. hyperbolic surfaces in large genus: simple closed curves
• The limit set of non-orientable mapping class groups
• Book review of: B. Farb (ed.) et al., Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces
• Near optimal spectral gaps for hyperbolic surfaces
• Short geodesic loops and \(L^p\) norms of eigenfunctions on large genus random surfaces
• Shear-shape cocycles for measured laminations and ergodic theory of the earthquake flow
• The asymmetry of Thurston's earthquake flow
• The Asymptotic Statistics of Random Covering Surfaces
• The diameter of random Belyĭ surfaces
• Bose–Einstein condensation on hyperbolic spaces
• A model for random three-manifolds
• Length statistics of random multicurves on closed hyperbolic surfaces
• Large genus asymptotics for lengths of separating closed geodesics on random surfaces
• Topological recursion for hyperbolic string field theory
• Effective mapping class group dynamics. I: Counting lattice points in Teichmüller space
• Bootstrap bounds on closed hyperbolic manifolds
• Random hyperbolic surfaces of large genus have first eigenvalues greater than \(\frac{3}{16}-\epsilon\)

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