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Around the combinatorial unit ball of measured foliations on bordered surfaces

Geometric Topology 2023-07-07 v2 Combinatorics Differential Geometry

Abstract

The volume BΣcomb(G)\mathscr{B}_{\Sigma}^{{\rm comb}}(\mathbb{G}) of the unit ball -- with respect to the combinatorial length function G\ell_{\mathbb{G}} -- of the space of measured foliations on a stable bordered surface Σ\Sigma appears as the prefactor of the polynomial growth of the number of multicurves on Σ\Sigma. We find the range of sRs \in \mathbb{R} for which (BΣcomb)s(\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 Σ\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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@article{arxiv.2110.12538,
  title  = {Around the combinatorial unit ball of measured foliations on bordered surfaces},
  author = {Gaëtan Borot and Séverin Charbonnier and Vincent Delecroix and Alessandro Giacchetto and Campbell Wheeler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.12538},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

37 pages, 2 appendices. v2: typos corrected, pictures added, and explanations added in various places