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Gromov-Hausdorff limits of flat Riemannian surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2020-01-29 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

I study Gromov-Hausdorff limits of complex curves endowed with singular flat metrics of constant diameter. I formulate a criterion that the limit is collapsed in terms of a certain piecewise affine weight function on the dual intersection complex of a semi-stable model of the degeneration introduced by Kontsevich and Soibelman. I describe the collapsed and non-collapsed limits, which are, respectively, metric graphs and finite collections of complex curves with flat metrics glued along finitely many points. I show that the collapsed limit of any positive genus can occur.

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@article{arxiv.1802.03818,
  title  = {Gromov-Hausdorff limits of flat Riemannian surfaces},
  author = {Dmitry Sustretov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03818},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages. some fixes