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Building planar polygon spaces from the projective braid arrangement

  • Navnath Daundkar und Priyavrat Deshpande ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 29. Februar 2024

Abstract

The moduli space of planar polygons with generic side lengths is a smooth, closed manifold. It is known that these manifolds contain the moduli space of distinct points on the real projective line as an open dense subset. Kapranov showed that the real points of the Deligne–Mumford–Knudson compactification can be obtained from the projective Coxeter complex of type 𝐴 (equivalently, the projective braid arrangement) by iteratively blowing up along the minimal building set. In this paper, we show that these planar polygon spaces can also be obtained from the projective Coxeter complex of type 𝐴 by performing an iterative cellular surgery along a subcollection of the minimal building set. Interestingly, this subcollection is determined by the combinatorial data associated with the length vector called the genetic code.

MSC 2020: 55R80; 52B05; 05E45

Award Identifier / Grant number: MTR/2017/000239

Funding statement: P. Deshpande is partially supported by a grant from the Infosys Foundation. This project is also supported by the MATRICS grant MTR/2017/000239 funded by SERB.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the anonymous referee for the careful reading and important suggestions to improve the exposition of this article. The authors also thank Anurag Singh for useful discussions related to saturated chains of genetic codes.

  1. Communicated by: Clara Löh

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Received: 2023-02-05
Revised: 2023-11-27
Published Online: 2024-02-29
Published in Print: 2024-07-01

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