Asymptotic sharp-slope conjecture for effective divisors on moduli spaces of curves

For an effective divisor D=aλbδD=a\lambda-b\delta on Mg\overline{\mathcal M}_g with a,b>0a,b>0, define its slope by

s(D)=ab.s(D)=\frac{a}{b}.

Here gg tends to infinity. Asymptotic sharp-slope conjecture. There exist effective divisors on Mg\overline{\mathcal M}_g with slopes arbitrarily close to

5765g\frac{576}{5g}

as gg goes to infinity. If true, this would make the currently known order O(1/g)O(1/g) the sharp asymptotic lower bound for slopes of effective divisors; the source contrasts it with the absence of any known effective divisor of slope at most 66 and gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Dawei Chen, “Square-tiled surfaces and rigid curves on moduli spaces”, arXiv:1003.0731 (2010).

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