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 and .
Cite
@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