Exponential volumes of moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces
Speaker(s): Zhe Sun (USTC)
Time: 14:00-15:00 November 18, 2025
Venue: Room 29, Quan Zhai, BICMR
Abstract:
Mirzakhani found a remarkable recursive formula for the volumes of the moduli spaces of the hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundary, and the recursive formula plays very important role in several areas of mathematics: topological recursion, random hyperbolic surfaces etc.
We consider some more general moduli spaces M_S(K,L) where the hyperbolic surfaces would have crown ends and horocycle decorations at each ideal points. But the volume of the space M_S(K,L) is infinite when S has the crown ends. To fix this problem, we introduce the exponential volume form given by the volume form multiplied by the exponent of a canonical function on M_S(K,L).
