Topology of tropical moduli spaces of weighted stable curves in higher genus

Abstract: Given integers

g g e q 0

,

n g e q 1

, and a vector

w i n (m a t h b b Q c a p (0, 1])^{n}

such that

2 g - 2 + s u m w_{i} > 0

, we study the topology of the moduli space

D e l t a_{g, w}

of

w

-stable tropical curves of genus

g

with volume 1. The space

D e l t a_{g, w}

is the dual complex of the divisor of singular curves in Hassett's moduli space of

w

-stable genus

g

curves

o v e r l i n e {m a t h c a l M}_{g, w}

. When

g g e q 1

, we show that

D e l t a_{g, w}

is simply connected for all values of

w

. We also give a formula for the Euler characteristic of

D e l t a_{g, w}

in terms of the combinatorics of

w

.

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