On Moduli Spaces of Convex Projective Structures on Surfaces: Outitude and Cell-Decomposition in Fock-Goncharov Coordinates

arXiv1911.04176MaRDI QIDQ6328909FDOQ6328909

Authors: Robert C. Haraway III, Robert L. Lowe, Dominic Tate, Stephan Tillmann 

Publication date: 11 November 2019

Abstract: Generalising a seminal result of Epstein and Penner for cusped hyperbolic manifolds, Cooper and Long showed that each decorated strictly convex projective cusped manifold has a canonical cell decomposition. Penner used the former result to describe a natural cell decomposition of decorated Teichm"uller space of punctured surfaces. We extend this cell decomposition to the moduli space of decorated strictly convex projective structures of finite volume on punctured surfaces. The proof uses Fock and Goncharov's $mathcalA$-coordinates for doubly decorated structures. In addition, we describe a simple, intrinsic edge-flipping algorithm to determine the canonical cell decomposition associated to a point in moduli space, and show that Penner's centres of Teichm"uller cells are also natural centres of the cells in moduli space. We show that in many cases, the associated holonomy groups are semi-arithmetic.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) General theory of linear incidence geometry and projective geometries (51A05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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