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Moduli Space of Cubic Surfaces as Ball Quotient via Hypergeometric Functions

Brent R. Doran
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We describe hypergeometric functions of Deligne-Mostow type for open subsets of the configuration space of six points on P^2, induced from those for seven points on P^1. The seven point ball quotient example DM(2^5,1^2) does not appear on Mostow's original list, but does appear on Thurston's corrected version. We show that DM(2^5,1^2) is a finite cover of the moduli space of cubic surfaces M_C endowed with the ball quotient structure G_C\B^4 of Allcock, Carlson, and Toledo. This answers a question of Allcock about the commensurability of G_C with the monodromy groups of Deligne-Mostow hypergeometric functions.

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Brent R. Doran. 2004-04-04. Moduli Space of Cubic Surfaces as Ball Quotient via Hypergeometric Functions. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404062

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