arXiv research

Same cohomology for curves with levels, proving stable range.

Study of tautological forms on curve moduli spaces.

New Poisson structures found on Higgs bundle moduli spaces.

Study shows K-moduli spaces of curves on quadrics and K3 surfaces match with VGIT quotients.

Paper introduces hybrid curves moduli space and canonical measures.

We investigate the arithmetic of algebraic curves on coarse moduli spaces for special linear rank two local systems on surfaces with fixed boundary traces. We prove a structure theorem for morphisms from the affine line into the moduli space. We show that the set of integral points on any nondegenerate algebraic curve …

A smooth curve found in a space of special surfaces.

We show how to define and count lattice points in the moduli space $\modm_{g,n}$ of genus g curves with n labeled points. This produces a polynomial with coefficients that include the Euler characteristic of the moduli space, and tautological intersection numbers on the compactified moduli space.

We describe the moduli space of stable rank 2 parabolic bundles over an elliptic curve with 3 marked points.

We prove that the moduli space of the pseudo holomorphic curves in the A-model on a symplectic torus is homeomorphic to a moduli space of Feynman diagrams in the configuration space of the morphisms in the B-model on the corresponding elliptic curve. These moduli spaces determine the $A_{\infty}$ structure of the both …

Study on moduli spaces of sextic curves with simple singularities and their compactifications.

Computes the Euler characteristic and rational homology of moduli spaces of multi-monopoles.

We consider the global symplectic classification problem of plane curves. First we give the exact classification result under symplectomorphisms, for the case of generic plane curves, namely immersions with transverse self-intersections. Then the set of symplectic classes form the symplectic moduli space which we compl…

We study the Picard groups of moduli spaces of smooth complex projective curves that have a group of automorphisms with a prescribed topological action. One of our main tools is the theory of symmetric mapping class groups. In the first part of the paper, we show that, under mild restrictions, the moduli spaces of smoo…

We study the moduli space of negatively curved metrics of a hyperbolic manifold.

These informal notes are an expanded version of lectures on the moduli space of elliptic curves given at Zhejiang University in July, 2008. Their goal is to introduce and motivate basic concepts and constructions (such as orbifolds and stacks) important in the study of moduli spaces of curves and abelian varieties thro…

The study shows boundedness and constructs a moduli space for Calabi-Yau fibrations.

We prove that the moduli space of curves with level structures has an enormous amount of rational cohomology in its cohomological dimension. As an application, we prove that the coherent cohomological dimension of the moduli space of curves is at least g-2. Well known conjectures of Looijenga would imply that this is s…

New examples show nonnegatively curved metrics with same soul but different moduli space components.

We define and count lattice points in the moduli space of stable genus g curves with n labeled points. This extends a construction of the second author for the uncompactified moduli space. The enumeration produces polynomials with top degree coefficients tautological intersection numbers on the compactified moduli spac…

Moduli spaces of real bundles over a real curve arise naturally as Lagrangian submanifolds of the moduli space of semi-stable bundles over a complex curve. In this paper, we adapt the methods of Atiyah-Bott's "Yang-Mills over a Riemann Surface" to compute Z/2-Betti numbers of these spaces, proving formulas recently obt…

Holomorphic curves in moduli spaces are quasi-isometrically immersed.

Study geometrically characterizes piecewise circular curves with decreasing curvature.

We study the moduli space of null curves in Klein's quartic in the four-dimensional (complex) projective plane using methods developed by Robert Bryant. As a consequence, we show that minimal surfaces with $9$ embedded planar ends do not exist and formulate some conjectures about the previous moduli space.

Smooth torus actions on moduli spaces of super stable curves and maps of genus zero.

In this paper we study relations between intersection numbers on moduli spaces of curves and Hurwitz numbers. First, we prove two formulas expressing Hurwitz numbers of (generalized) polynomials via intersections on moduli spaces of curves. Then we show, how intersection numbers can be expressed via Hurwitz numbers. An…

We study the mean dimension of the moduli space of Brody curves. We introduce the notion of "mean energy" and show that this can be used to estimate the mean dimension.

The paper classifies sextic curves on a Fano 3-fold with rational Galois covers in 3D space.

Study shows non-polyhedral structure in moduli spaces for n≥8.

Study on algebraic curves' invariants and vanishing criteria.

We construct proper good moduli spaces parametrizing K-polystable $\mathbb{Q}$-Gorenstein smoothable log Fano pairs $(X, cD)$, where $X$ is a Fano variety and $D$ is a rational multiple of the anti-canonical divisor. We then establish a wall-crossing framework of these K-moduli spaces as $c$ varies. The main applicatio…

This note is devoted to the definition of moduli spaces of rational tropical curves with n marked points. We show that this space has a structure of a smooth tropical variety of dimension n-3. We define the Deligne-Mumford compactification of this space and tropical $ψ$-class divisors.

Study flat connections with logarithmic singularities on complex plane curves.

New method proves achiral Lefschetz fibrations exist using Riemannian geometry.

Alternative proof for non-existence of complete curves in differential strata.

In this paper, we investigate the geometry of the moduli space of curves by using the curvature properties of direct image sheaves of vector bundles. We show that the moduli space $(M_g, ω_{WP})$ of curves with genus $g>1$ has dual-Nakano negative and semi-Nakano-negative curvature, and in particular, it has non-positi…

The paper constructs cohomology classes on curve strata.

Characterizes curves with short representatives on hyperbolic surfaces.

Global rigidity theorem for curve to abelian variety maps.

We realize Stasheff's multiplihedron geometrically as the moduli space of stable quilted disks. This generalizes the geometric realization of the associahedron as the moduli space of stable disks. We show that this moduli space is the non-negative real part of a complex moduli space of stable scaled marked curves.

We study the topology of the tropical moduli space parametrizing stable tropical curves of genus g with n marked points in which the bounded edges have total length 1, and prove that it is highly connected. Using the identification of this space with the dual complex of the boundary in the moduli space of stable algebr…

We classify curves in the moduli space of curves that are both Shimura- and Teichmueller curves: Except for the moduli space of genus one curves there is only a single such curve. We start with a Hodge-theoretic description of Shimura curves and of Teichmueller curves that reveals similarities and differences of the tw…

Geometric reduction of the Newtonian planar three-body problem is investigated in the framework of equivariant Riemannian geometry, which reduces the study of trajectories of three-body motions to the study of their moduli curves, that is, curves which record the change of size and shape, in the moduli space of oriente…

New Morse functions on curve moduli space via geodesics.

Study shows moduli space of fibrations has specific homotopy types.

The paper studies holomorphic curves in a pseudo-Riemannian space and their moduli space.

In this paper, we construct the index bundle gerbe of a family of self-adjoint Dirac-type operators, refining a construction of Segal. In a special case, we construct a geometric bundle gerbe called the caloron bundle gerbe, which comes with a natural connection and curving, and show that it is isomorphic to the analyt…

Totally geodesic subvarieties in moduli space are locally rigid.