The structure and singularities of quotient arc complexes

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTN006MaRDI QIDQ3524101zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Penner

Publication date 8 September 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410603

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: A classical combinatorial fact is that the simplicial complex consisting of disjointly embedded chords in a convex planar polygon is a sphere. For any surface F with non-empty boundary, there is an analogous complex Arc(F) consisting of suitable equivalence classes of arcs in F connecting its boundary components. The main result of this paper is the determination of those arc complexes Arc(F) that are also spherical. This classification has consequences for Riemann's moduli space via its known identification with an analogous arc complex in the punctured case with no boundary. Namely, the essential singulities of the natural cellular compactification can be described.

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