Leading-term conjecture for volumes of (1,k)-annuli

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Let VA1,kV_{\mathbb{A}_{1,k}} denote the volume of the moduli space of (1,k)(1,k)-annuli, viewed as a polynomial in π2\pi^2. Here kk is a positive integer. Leading-term conjecture for annular volumes. The leading term is

(2k−1)!!(2k)!!π2klog⁡2\frac{(2k-1)!!}{(2k)!!}\pi^{2k}\log 2

when kk is odd of the form 2k+12k+1, and the leading term is

74(2k−2)!!(2k−1)!!π2k−2ζ(3)\frac{7}{4}\frac{(2k-2)!!}{(2k-1)!!}\pi^{2k-2}\zeta(3)

when the annulus has type (1,2k)(1,2k). These formulas are proposed from computed volume values; their validity for all indicated values of kk remains open.

References

Primary source

Yi Huang and Ivan Telpukhovskiy, “Moduli spaces of open strings have polylogarithmic Mirzakhani volumes”, arXiv:2509.09401 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2505.14626, arXiv:2201.12432.

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