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Let $V_{g,m,n}(\overrightarrow L,\overrightarrow \theta)$ be the Weil-Petersson volume of the moduli space of hyperbolic surfaces of genus g with m geodesic boundary components of length $\overrightarrow L=(\ell_1,...,\ell_m)$ and $n$ cone…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Haoyang Jiang , Lixin Liu

We investigate the geometry of the moduli space of N-vortices on line bundles over a closed Riemann surface of genus g > 1, in the little explored situation where 1 =< N < g. In the regime where the area of the surface is just large enough…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Nicholas S. Manton , Nuno M. Romão

Two-dimensional conformal field theory is a powerful tool to understand the geometry of surfaces. Here, we study Liouville conformal field theory in the classical (large central charge) limit, where it encodes the geometry of the moduli…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-04 Kale Colville , Sarah M. Harrison , Alexander Maloney , Keivan Namjou

The moduli spaces of compact and connected Riemann surfaces has been a central topic in modern mathematics in recent years. Thus their homological dimensions become important invariants. Motivated by the emergence mathematical counterparts…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Hao Yu

We show that the compactification of the moduli space of $n-$nodal curves of genus g, i.e. $\mathcal{N}_{g,n}:= \mathcal{M}_{g,2n} /G$, with $G:=(\mathbb{Z}_2)^n \rtimes S_n$, is of general type for $g \geq 24$, for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Irene Schwarz

For the moduli space of unmarked convex $\mathbb{RP}^2$ structures on the surface $S_{g,m}$ with negative Euler characteristic, we investigate the subsets of the moduli space defined by the notions like boundedness of projective invariants,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Zhe Sun

Weil-Petersson and Masur-Veech volumes measure the sizes of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces equipped with hyperbolic and flat metrics, respectively. Over the past several decades, the computation of these volumes has inspired remarkable…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Dawei Chen , Scott Mullane

This is a survey article for the mathematical theory of Witten's Gauged Linear Sigma Model, as developed recently by the authors. Instead of developing the theory in the most general setting, in this paper we focus on the description of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Huijun Fan , Tyler Jarvis , Yongbin Ruan

In this article, we derive estimates of Teichm\"uller modular forms, and associated invariants. Let $\mathcal{M}_{g}$ denote the moduli space of compact hyperbolic Riemann surfaces of genus $g\geq 2$, and let $\overline{M}_{g}$ be the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Anilatmaja Aryasomayajula , Debasish Sadhukhan

Let $\mathcal{M}_{g,n(g)}$ be the moduli space of hyperbolic surfaces of genus $g$ with $n(g)$ punctures endowed with the Weil-Petersson metric. In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of the Cheeger constants and spectral gaps of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Yang Shen , Yunhui Wu

In this article we show that for every finite area hyperbolic surface $X$ of type $(g,n)$ and any harmonic Beltrami differential $\mu$ on $X$, then the magnitude of $\mu$ at any point of small injectivity radius is uniform bounded from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Martin Bridgeman , Yunhui Wu

Consider a sequence of closed, orientable surfaces of fixed genus $g$ in a Riemannian manifold $M$ with uniform upper bounds on mean curvature and area. We show that on passing to a subsequence and choosing appropriate parametrisations, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-13 Siddartha Gadgil , Harish Seshadri

This paper studies the space $X_g\subset \mathcal{M}_g$ consisting of surfaces with filling systoles and its subset, critical points of the systole function. In the first part, we obtain a surface with Teichm\"uller distance…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Yue Gao

We study how the degrees of irrationality of moduli spaces of polarized K3 surfaces grow with respect to the genus $g$. We prove that the growth is bounded by a polynomial function of degree $14+\varepsilon$ for any $\varepsilon>0$ and, for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Daniele Agostini , Ignacio Barros , Kuan-Wen Lai

We study the moduli space ${V}_4\mathcal{M}_{g}$ of Klein four covers of genus $g$ curves and its natural compactification. This requires the construction of a related space which has a choice of basis for the Klein four group. This space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Charles Siegel

A recent preprint of S. Kojima and G. McShane [KM] observes a beautiful explicit connection between Teichm\"uller translation distance and hyperbolic volume. It relies on a key estimate which we supply here: using geometric inflexibility of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Jeffrey Brock , Kenneth Bromberg

The super Weil-Petersson metric defined over the moduli space of smooth super curves produces a natural measure over the moduli space of smooth curves. The construction of the measure uses the extra data of a spin structure on each smooth…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Paul Norbury

Working in positive characteristic, we show how one can use information about the dimension of moduli spaces of rational curves on a Fano variety $X$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$ to obtain strong estimates for the number of $\mathbb{F}_q(t)$-points…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Jakob Glas

The moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces of genus g with n geodesic boundary components are naturally symplectic manifolds. Mirzakhani proved that their volumes are polynomials in the lengths of the boundaries by computing the volumes…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Norman Do , Paul Norbury

In this paper we study the injectivity radius based at a fixed point along Weil-Petersson geodesics. We show that the square root of the injectivity radius based at a fixed point is $ 0.3884$-Lipschitz on Teichm\"uller space endowed with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Yunhui Wu