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Teichm\"uller curves in hyperelliptic components of meromorphic strata

Algebraic Geometry 2025-06-25 v1 Dynamical Systems Geometric Topology

Abstract

We provide a complete classification of Teichm\"uller curves occurring in hyperelliptic components of the meromorphic strata of differentials. Using a non-existence criterion based on how Teichm\"uller curves intersect the boundary of the moduli space we derive a contradiction to the algebraicity of any candidate outside of Hurwitz covers of strata with projective dimension one and Hurwitz covers of zero residue loci in strata with projective dimension two.

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@article{arxiv.2305.03309,
  title  = {Teichm\"uller curves in hyperelliptic components of meromorphic strata},
  author = {Martin Möller and Scott Mullane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.03309},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Includes the appendix: An $\mathbb{R}$-linear non-algebraic manifold by Benjamin Bakker and Scott Mullane. 22 pages, 8 figures