Conical metrics on Riemann surfaces, I: The compactified configuration space and regularity

Mazzeo, Rafe¹ ; Zhu, Xuwen²

¹ Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
² Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

Geometry & topology, Tome 24 (2020) no. 1, pp. 309-372.

Résumé

We introduce a compactification of the space of simple positive divisors on a Riemann surface, as well as a compactification of the universal family of punctured surfaces above this space. These are real manifolds with corners. We then study the space of constant curvature metrics on this Riemann surface with prescribed conical singularities at these divisors. Our interest here is in the local deformation for these metrics, and in particular the behavior of these families as conic points coalesce. We prove a sharp regularity theorem for this phenomenon in the regime where these metrics are known to exist. This setting will be used in a subsequent paper to study the space of spherical conic metrics with large cone angles, where the existence theory is still incomplete. Of independent interest is how setting up the analysis on these compactified configuration spaces provides a good framework for analyzing “confluent families” of regular singular, ie conic, elliptic differential operators.

Détail

DOI : 10.2140/gt.2020.24.309

Classification : 53C25, 58H15
Keywords: Conical metrics, constant curvature, compactified configuration space, polyhomogeneity

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