The kernel of the monodromy of the universal family of degree d smooth plane curves

DOI10.1142/S1793525320500375MaRDI QIDQ5156548zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Reid Monroe Harris

Publication date 11 October 2021

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10355

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupplane curveWeil-Petersson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60)

Abstract: We consider the parameter space $mathcal{U}_d$ of smooth plane curves of degree $d$. The universal smooth plane curve of degree $d$ is a fiber bundle $mathcal{E}_{d}omathcal{U}_d$ with fiber diffeomorphic to a surface $Sigm{a}_g$. This bundle gives rise to a monodromy homomorphism $h{o}_d:p{i}_1(mathcal{U}_d)omathrmMod(Sigm{a}_g)$, where $mathrmMod(Sigm{a}_g):=p{i}_0(mathrm{Diff}^{+}(Sigm{a}_g))$ is the mapping class group of $Sigm{a}_g$. The main result of this paper is that the kernel of $h{o}_4:p{i}_1(mathcal{U}_4)omathrmMod(Sigm{a}_3)$ is isomorphic to $F_{i}nftyimesmathbbZ/3mathbbZ$, where $F_{i}nfty$ is a free group of countably infinite rank. In the process of proving this theorem, we show that the complement $mathrmTeich(Sigm{a}_g)setminusmathcal{H}_g$ of the hyperelliptic locus $mathcal{H}_g$ in Teichm"uller space $mathrmTeich(Sigm{a}_g)$ has the homotopy type of an infinite wedge of spheres. As a corollary, we obtain that the moduli space of plane quartic curves is aspherical. The proofs use results from the Weil-Petersson geometry of Teichm"uller space together with results from algebraic geometry.

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