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Moduli Spaces of Stable Polygons and Symplectic Structures on$\overline{\mathcal M}$0,n

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2007

YI HU
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. email: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019. email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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In this paper, certain natural and elementary polygonal objects in Euclidean space, the stable polygons, are introduced, and the novel moduli spaces${mathfrak M}$$_r,ϵ$ of stable polygons are constructed as complex analytic spaces. Quite unexpectedly, these new moduli spaces are shown to be projective and isomorphic to the moduli space $\overlinel{\matcal M}$$_0,n$ of the Deligne–Mumford stable curves of genus 0. Further, built into the structures of stable polygons are some natural data giving rise to a family of (classes of) symplectic (Kähler) forms. This, via the link to $\overlinel{\matcal M}$$_0,n$, brings up a new tool to study the Kähler topology of$\overlinel{\matcal M}$$_0,n$. A wild but precise conjecture on the shape of the Kähler cone of $\overlinel{\matcal M}$$_0,n$is given in the end.

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Research Article
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© 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers