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Volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Klein surfaces

Geometric Topology 2025-12-01 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We generalise Mirzakhani's recursion to volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Klein surfaces, which include non-orientable surfaces. On these moduli spaces, the top form introduced by Norbury diverges as the lengths of 1-sided geodesics approach zero. However, when integrated over Gendulphe's regularised moduli space, on which the systole of 1-sided geodesics is bounded below by ϵR>0\epsilon\in\mathbb{R}_{>0}, it returns a finite value. Using Norbury's extension of the Mirzakhani--McShane identities to non-orientable surfaces, we derive an explicit formula for the volume of the moduli space of one-bordered Klein bottles, as well as a recursion for arbitrary topologies that fully captures the dependence on Gendulphe's regularisation parameter ϵ\epsilon. We further relate these results to refined topological recursion, showing that, for a fixed refinement parameter, the volumes of moduli spaces of Klein surfaces with Euler characteristic 1-1 are governed by this procedure, and we conjecture the same holds for general topologies.

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@article{arxiv.2511.21986,
  title  = {Volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Klein surfaces},
  author = {Elba Garcia-Failde and Paolo Gregori and Kento Osuga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21986},
  year   = {2025}
}

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40 pages, 6 figures