We study the algebro-geometric aspects of Teichmüller curves parameterizing square-tiled surfaces with two applications. (a) There exist infinitely many rigid curves on the moduli space of hyperelliptic curves. They span the same extremal ray of the cone of moving curves. Their union is a Zariski dense subset. Hence they yield infinitely many rigid curves with the same properties on the moduli ...

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce several concepts of the metric-like spaces. For instance, we define concepts such as equal-like points, cluster points and completely separate points. Furthermore, this paper is an attempt to present compatibility definitions for the distance between a point and a subset of a metric-like space and also for the distance between two subsets of a metr...

Let X be a general complete intersection of a given multi-degree in a complex projective space. Suppose that the anti-canonical line bundle of X is ample. Using the cylinder homomorphism associated with the family of complete intersections contained in X, we prove that the vanishing cycles in the middle homology group of X are represented by topological cycles whose support is contained in a pr...

We study the postcritically finite maps within the moduli space of complex polynomial dynamical systems. We characterize rational curves in the moduli space containing an infinite number of postcritically finite maps, in terms of critical orbit relations, in two settings: (1) rational curves that are polynomially parameterized; and (2) cubic polynomials defined by a given fixed point multiplier...

In this paper we show Whitney’s fibering conjecture in the real and complex, local analytic and global algebraic cases. For a given germ of complex or real analytic set, we show the existence of a stratification satisfying a strong (real arc-analytic with respect to all variables and analytic with respect to the parameter space) trivialization property along each stratum. We call such a trivial...

The objective of these notes is to present a few important results about complete ideals in 2–dimensional regular local rings. The fundamental theorems about such ideals are due to Zariski found in appendix 5 of [26]. These results were proved by Zariski in [27] for 2dimensional polynomial rings over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and rings of holomorphic functions. Zarisk...