Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Lazarsfeld, Robert | Grushevsky, Samuel | Takhtajan, Leon | Wolpert, Scott.
Date
2014-12-01
Keywords
Mathematics
Department
Department of Mathematics.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76407
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
A recent approach proposed by Grushevsky and Krichever uses real-normalized differentials, meromorphic differentials with all periods real, to study the geometry of the moduli space of curves. We describe the behavior of real-normalized differentials under degeneration of the Riemann surface, and this analysis allows us to study the limits of zeros of these differentials near the boundary of the Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space of curves. Our explicit description of the behavior of real-normalized differentials near nodal curves provides a tool for understanding common zeros of such differentials which has applications for the study of plane curves. This analysis should have further applications to degenerations of holomorphic differentials which is of interest in Teichmueller dynamics. | 115 pages
Recommended Citation
Norton, Chaya Rifka, "Limits of Real-Normalized Dierentials on Stable Curves" (2014). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2330.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2330