Moduli via double pants decompositions

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2012.07.002zbMATH Open1250.32012arXiv1102.4861OpenAlexW2019155173WikidataQ115356699 ScholiaQ115356699MaRDI QIDQ714441FDOQ714441

Anna Felikson, Sergey Natanzon

Publication date: 11 October 2012

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider (local) parametrizations of Teichmuller space $T_{g,n}$ (of genus $g$ hyperbolic surfaces with $n$ boundary components) by lengths of $6g-6+3n$ geodesics. We find a large family of suitable sets of $6g-6+3n$ geodesics, each set forming a special structure called "admissible double pants decomposition". For admissible double pants decompositions containing no double curves we show that the lengths of curves contained in the decomposition determine the point of $T_{g,n}$ up to finitely many choices. Moreover, these lengths provide a local coordinate in a neighborhood of all points of $T_{g,n}setminusX$, where $X$ is a union of $3g-3+n$ hypersurfaces. Furthermore, there exists a groupoid acting transitively on admissible double pants decompositions and generated by transformations exchanging only one curve of the decomposition. The local charts arising from different double pants decompositions compose an atlas covering the Teichmuller space. The gluings of the adjacent charts are coming from the elementary transformations of the decompositions, the gluing functions are algebraic. The same charts provide an atlas for a large part of the boundary strata in Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4861

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacespants decompositionshyperbolic surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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