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The Thurston spine and equivariant cell decompositions in genus 2
Abstract
The Thurston spine of the genus 2 Teichmüller space of closed compact surfaces is obtained. In particular, we identify all mapping class group-orbits of filling sets of systoles in genus 2. Thereby, surprisingly rich cases already appear in this simplest case which is genus 2. This is contrasted with a cell decomposition of a bordification of Teichmüller space obtained computationally using Rivin's angle coordinates, on which the cells are labelled by Delaunay graphs closely related to our systolic graphs.
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BibTeX
@misc{an2026thurston,
title = {{The Thurston spine and equivariant cell decompositions in genus 2}},
author = {Ni An and Jiexing Chen and Ingrid Irmer and Paul Schmutz Schaller},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.38254},
eprint = {2609.38254},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38254},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - The Thurston spine and equivariant cell decompositions in genus 2
AU - Ni An
AU - Jiexing Chen
AU - Ingrid Irmer
AU - Paul Schmutz Schaller
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.38254
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38254
AB - The Thurston spine of the genus 2 Teichmüller space of closed compact surfaces is obtained. In particular, we identify all mapping class group-orbits of filling sets of systoles in genus 2. Thereby, surprisingly rich cases already appear in this simplest case which is genus 2. This is contrasted with a cell decomposition of a bordification of Teichmüller space obtained computationally using Rivin's angle coordinates, on which the cells are labelled by Delaunay graphs closely related to our systolic graphs.
ER -