Hurwitz Theory of Elliptic Orbifolds, I
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the Masur-Veech volumes of strata of cubic, quartic, and sextic differentials are polynomial in π.
Abstract: An elliptic orbifold is the quotient of an elliptic curve by a finite
group. In 2001, Eskin and Okounkov proved that generating functions for the number of
branched covers of an elliptic curve with specified ramification are quasimodular forms
for SL2(ℤ). In 2006, they generalized this theorem to branched covers of the quotient of an
elliptic curve by ±1, proving quasimodularity for Γ0(2). We generalize their work to the quotient of an elliptic curve by ⟨ζN⟩ for N=3, 4, 6, proving quasimodularity for Γ(N), and extend their work in the case N=2. It follows that certain generating functions of hexagon, square and triangle tilings of
compact surfaces are quasimodular forms. These tilings enumerate lattice points in moduli
spaces of flat surfaces. We analyze the asymptotics as the number of tiles goes to
infinity, providing an algorithm to compute the Masur–Veech volumes of strata of cubic,
quartic, and sextic differentials. We conclude a generalization of the Kontsevich–Zorich
conjecture: these volumes are polynomial in π.
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TL;DR: In this article, the Masur-Veech volume and area Siegel Veech constant of the moduli space of meromorphic quadratic differential with simple poles as polynomials in the intersection numbers of psi-classes supported on the boundary cycles of the Deligne-Mumford compactification of curves were derived from lattice point count involving the Kontsevich volume.
Abstract: We express the Masur-Veech volume and the area Siegel-Veech constant of the moduli space of meromorphic quadratic differential with simple poles as polynomials in the intersection numbers of psi-classes supported on the boundary cycles of the Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space of curves. Our formulae are derived from lattice point count involving the Kontsevich volume polynomials that also appear in Mirzakhani's recursion for the Weil-Petersson volumes of the moduli space of bordered hyperbolic Riemann surfaces.
A similar formula for the Masur-Veech volume (though without explicit evaluation) was obtained earlier by Mirzakhani through completely different approach. We prove further result: up to an explicit normalization factor depending only on the genus and on the number of cusps, the density of the orbit of any simple closed multicurve computed by Mirzakhani coincides with the density of square-tiled surfaces having horizontal cylinder decomposition associated to the simple closed multicurve.
We study the resulting densities in more detail in the special case when there are no cusps. In particular, we compute explicitly the asymptotic frequencies of separating and non-separating simple closed geodesics on a closed hyperbolic surface of genus g for all small genera g and we show that in large genera the separating closed geodesics are exponentially less frequent.
We conclude with detailed conjectural description of combinatorial geometry of a random simple closed multicurve on a surface of large genus and of a random square-tiled surface of large genus. This description is conditional to the conjectural asymptotic formula for the Masur-Veech volume in large genera and to the conjectural uniform asymptotic formula for certain sums of intersection numbers of psi-classes in large genera.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Masur-Veech volume and area Siegel Veech constant of the moduli space Qg,n of genus g meromorphic quadratic differentials with at most n simple poles and no other poles as polynomials in the intersection numbers ∫M g′,n′ψ1d1⋯ψ n′dn′ with explicit rational coefficients, where g>g and n′<2g+n.
Abstract: We express the Masur–Veech volume and the area Siegel–Veech constant of the moduli space Qg,n of genus g meromorphic quadratic differentials with at most n simple poles and no other poles as polynomials in the intersection numbers ∫M‾ g′,n′ψ1d1⋯ψ n′dn′ with explicit rational coefficients, where g′
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TL;DR: The rationality (up to some power of $\pi$) of the Masur-Veech volume of arithmetic affine submanifolds of translation surfaces that are transverse to the kernel foliation is obtained.
Abstract: Let $S$ be a connected closed oriented surface of genus $g$. Given a triangulation (resp. quadrangulation) of $S$, define the index of each of its vertices to be the number of edges originating from this vertex minus $6$ (resp. minus $4$). Call the set of integers recording the non-zero indices the profile of the triangulation (resp. quadrangulation). If $\kappa$ is a profile for triangulations (resp. quadrangulations) of $S$, for any $m\in \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$, denote by $\mathscr{T}(\kappa,m)$ (resp. $\mathscr{Q}(\kappa,m)$) the set of (equivalence classes of) triangulations (resp. quadrangulations) with profile $\kappa$ which contain at most $m$ triangles (resp. squares). In this paper, we will show that if $\kappa$ is a profile for triangulations (resp. for quadrangulations) of $S$ such that none of the indices in $\kappa$ is divisible by $6$ (resp. by $4$), then $\mathscr{T}(\kappa,m)\sim c_3(\kappa)m^{2g+|\kappa|-2}$ (resp. $\mathscr{Q}(\kappa,m) \sim c_4(\kappa)m^{2g+|\kappa|-2}$), where $c_3(\kappa) \in \mathbb{Q}\cdot(\sqrt{3}\pi)^{2g+|\kappa|-2}$ and $c_4(\kappa)\in \mathbb{Q}\cdot\pi^{2g+|\kappa|-2}$. The key ingredient of the proof is a result of J. Kollar on the link between the curvature of the Hogde metric on vector subbundles of a variation of Hodge structure over algebraic varieties, and Chern classes of their extensions. By the same method, we also obtain the rationality (up to some power of $\pi$) of the Masur-Veech volume of arithmetic affine submanifolds of translation surfaces that are transverse to the kernel foliation.
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TL;DR: The moduli spaces of flat surfaces with prescribed conical singularities were studied in this paper, where it was shown that the volumes of these spaces are finite and that they are explicitely computable by induction on the Euler characteristics of the punctured surface.
Abstract: We study the moduli spaces of flat surfaces with prescribed conical singularities. Veech showed that these spaces are diffeomorphic to the moduli spaces of marked Riemann surfaces, and endowed with a natural volume form depending on the orders of the singularities. We show that the volumes of these spaces are finite. Moreover we show that they are explicitely computable by induction on the Euler characteristics of the punctured surface for almost all orders of the singularities. The proof relies on the computation of the large $k$ asymptotics of intersection numbers on moduli spaces of $k$-canonical divisors. This analysis was made possible by recent progress in the study of the intersection theory of the universal Jacobian by Bae, Holmes, Pandharipande, Schmitt, and Schwarz.
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TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the space of measured foliations on a stable bordered surface is integrable with respect to the Kontsevich measure on the unit ball.
Abstract: The volume $\mathscr{B}_{\Sigma}^{{\rm comb}}(\mathbb{G})$ of the unit ball -- with respect to the combinatorial length function $\ell_{\mathbb{G}}$-- of the space of measured foliations on a stable bordered surface $\Sigma$ appears as the prefactor of the polynomial growth of the number of multicurves on $\Sigma$. We find the range of $s \in \mathbb{R}$ for which $(\mathscr{B}_{\Sigma}^{{\rm comb}})^{s}$, as a function over the combinatorial moduli spaces, is integrable with respect to the Kontsevich measure. The results depends on the topology of $\Sigma$, in contrast with the situation for hyperbolic surfaces where Arana-Herrera and Athreya (arXiv:1907.06287) recently proved an optimal square-integrability.
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TL;DR: The Riemannsche Theorie der algebraischen Funktionen as discussed by the authors is a Theorie von der graphisch uber der komplexen Zahlenebene.
Abstract: Die grundlegende Bedeutung des vorliegenden Themas fur die Riemann’sche Theorie der algebraischen Funktionen brauche ich wohl kaum hervorzuheben. Geht doch diese Theorie von der graphisch uber der komplexen Zahlenebene konstruierten Riemann’schen Flache aus, um erst sodann die Funktionen, welche durch diese Flache bestimmt sind, zu untersuchen.
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TL;DR: In this article, an explicit equivalence between the stationary sector of the Gromov-Witten theory of a target curve X and the enumeration of Hurwitz coverings of X in the basis of completed cycles was established.
Abstract: We establish an explicit equivalence between the stationary sector of the Gromov-Witten theory of a target curve X and the enumeration of Hurwitz coverings of X in the basis of completed cycles. The stationary sector is formed, by definition, by the descendents of the point class. Completed cycles arise naturally in the theory of shifted symmetric functions. Using this equivalence, we give a complete description of the stationary Gromov-Witten theory of the projective line and elliptic curve. Toda equations for the relative stationary theory of the projective line are derived.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors review how recent results in quantum field theory confirm two general predictions of the mirror symmetry program in the special case of elliptic curves: counting functions of holomorphic curves on a Calabi-Yau space (Gromov-Witten invariants) are quasimodular forms for the mirror family; they can be computed by a summation over trivalent Feynman graphs.
Abstract: I review how recent results in quantum field theory confirm two general predictions of the mirror symmetry program in the special case of elliptic curves: (1) counting functions of holomorphic curves on a Calabi-Yau space (Gromov-Witten invariants) are ‘quasimodular forms’ for the mirror family; (2) they can be computed by a summation over trivalent Feynman graphs.
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