Geometry Working Seminar

Henry Liu, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Deligne–Mumford Compactification (Part 2)”

We continue with proving Mumford’s compactness criterion, now for genus g ¿= 2. This general case relies on some more properties of Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates for Teichmller space, so we shall start by examining Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates in a bit more detail.

MC 5403