Moduli Spaces of Curves, Mapping Class Groups and Field Theory

Author:   Xavier Buff ,  Jerome Fehrenbach ,  Pierre Lochak ,  Leila Schneps
Publisher:   American Mathematical Society
Edition:   illustrated edition
Volume:   No. 9
ISBN:  

9780821831670


Pages:   131
Publication Date:   30 June 2003
Format:   Paperback
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This is a collection of articles that grew out of a workshop organized to discuss deep links among various topics that were previously considered unrelated. Rather than a typical workshop, this gathering was unique as it was structured more like a course for advanced graduate students and research mathematicians. In the book, the authors present applications of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces in theoretical physics and number theory and on Grothendieck's dessins d'enfants and their generalizations. Chapter 1 gives an introduction to Teichmuller space that is more concise than the popular textbooks, yet contains full proofs of many useful results which are often difficult to find in the literature. This chapter also contains an introduction to moduli spaces of curves, with a detailed description of the genus zero case, and in particular of the part at infinity. Chapter 2 takes up the subject of the genus zero moduli spaces and gives a complete description of their fundamental groupoids, based at tangential base points neighboring the part at infinity; the description relies on an identification of the structure of these groupoids with that of certain canonical subgroupoids of a free braided tensor category. It concludes with a study of the canonical Galois action on the fundamental groupoids, computed using.

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Author:   Xavier Buff ,  Jerome Fehrenbach ,  Pierre Lochak ,  Leila Schneps
Publisher:   American Mathematical Society
Imprint:   American Mathematical Society
Edition:   illustrated edition
Volume:   No. 9
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780821831670


ISBN 10:   0821831674
Pages:   131
Publication Date:   30 June 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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