Moduli spaces of open strings have polylogarithmic Mirzakhani volumes

Yi Huang, Ivan Telpukhovskiy

Published: 2025/9/11

Abstract

We show that the Mirzakhani volume, as introduced by Chekhov, of the moduli space of every non-contractible crowned hyperbolic surface is naturally expressible as a sum of Gaussian rational multiples of polylogarithms evaluated at $\pm1$ and $\pm\sqrt{-1}$.