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Moduli spaces of open strings have polylogarithmic Mirzakhani volumes

Geometric Topology 2025-10-28 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that the Mirzakhani volume, as introduced by Chekhov, of the moduli space of every crowned hyperbolic surface is naturally expressible as a sum of Gaussian rational multiples of polylogarithms evaluated at ±1\pm1 and ±1\pm\sqrt{-1}.

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@article{arxiv.2509.09401,
  title  = {Moduli spaces of open strings have polylogarithmic Mirzakhani volumes},
  author = {Yi Huang and Ivan Telpukhovskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09401},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

35 pages, 3 figures. Conjecture 1.7 is now Theorem 1.7