The moduli space of hex spheres

DOI10.2140/AGT.2011.11.1323MaRDI QIDQ538632zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aldo-Hilario Cruz-Cota

Publication date 25 May 2011

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03031

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacessingular Euclidean surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: Let $p$ be a branched covering of a Riemann surface to the Riemann sphere $mathbb{P}^1$, with branching set $Bsubsetmathbb{P}^1$. We define the complexity of $p$ as infinity, if $mathbb{P}^{1}setminusB$ does not admit a hyperbolic structure, or the product of its degree and the hyperbolic area of $mathbb{P}^{1}setminusB$, otherwise. The topological complexity of a surface $S$ is defined as the infimum of the set of all complexities of branched coverings $Momathbb{P}^1$, where $M$ is a Riemann surface homeomorphic to $S$. We prove that if $S$ is a connected, closed, orientable surface of genus $g$, then its topological complexity, $C_{exttop}(S)$, is given by: [C_{ ext{top}}(S)= left{ �egin{array}{cl} 2pi(2g+1) & mbox{if } g geq 1, 6 pi & mbox{if } g=0. end{array} ight.]

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