Chern classes of linear submanifolds with application to spaces of -differentials and ball quotients
Matteo Costantini
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, GermanyMartin Möller
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, GermanyJohannes Schwab
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Abstract
We provide formulas for the Chern classes of linear submanifolds of the moduli spaces of Abelian differentials and hence for their Euler characteristic. This includes as special case the moduli spaces of -differentials, for which we set up the full intersection theory package and implement it in the SageMath package diffstrata
. As an application, we give an algebraic proof of the theorems of Deligne–Mostow and Thurston that suitable compactifications of moduli spaces of -differentials on the -punctured projective line with weights satisfying the INT-condition are quotients of the complex two-ball.
Cite this article
Matteo Costantini, Martin Möller, Johannes Schwab, Chern classes of linear submanifolds with application to spaces of -differentials and ball quotients. Comment. Math. Helv. (2025), published online first
DOI 10.4171/CMH/593