Volumes of Moduli Spaces of Abelian Differentials
Speaker(s): Dawei Chen (Boston College)
Time: 10:00-11:00 July 22, 2019
Venue: Room 29, Quan Zhai, BICMR
Abstract: Computing volumes of moduli spaces has significance in many fields. For instance, Witten’s conjecture regarding intersection numbers on moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces has a fascinating connection to the Weil-Petersson volume, which motivated Mirzakhani to give a proof via Teichmueller theory, hyperbolic geometry, and symplectic geometry. In this talk I will introduce an analogue of Witten’s intersection numbers on moduli spaces of Abelian differentials to compute the Masur-Veech volumes induced by the flat metric associated with Abelian differentials. This is part of joint work with Moeller, Sauvaget, and Zagier (arXiv:1901.01785).