Moduli Spaces of Stable Polygons and Symplectic Structures on $$\overline {\mathcal{M}} _{0,n} $$

Wiley - Tập 118 - Trang 159-187 - 1999
Yi Hu1,2
1Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
2Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Arlington

Tóm tắt

In this paper, certain natural and elementary polygonal objects in Euclidean space, the stable polygons, are introduced, and the novel moduli spaces $$\mathfrak{M}_{{\text{r,}}\varepsilon } $$ of stable polygons are constructed as complex analytic spaces. Quite unexpectedly, these new moduli spaces are shown to be projective and isomorphic to the moduli space $$\overline {\mathcal{M}} _{0,n} $$ of the Deligne–Mumford stable curves of genus 0. Further, built into the structures of stable polygons are some natural data giving rise to a family of (classes of) symplectic (Kähler) forms. This, via the link to $$\overline {\mathcal{M}} _{0,n} $$ , brings up a new tool to study the Kähler topology of $$\overline {\mathcal{M}} _{0,n} $$ . A wild but precise conjecture on the shape of the Kähler cone of $$\overline {\mathcal{M}} _{0,n} $$ is given in the end.

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