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 $\pm\sqrt{-1}$.