The dimension of Thurston's spine
Abstract
We show that for every >0, there exists some g≥ 2 such that the set of closed hyperbolic surfaces of genus g whose systoles fill has dimension at least (5-) g. In particular, the dimension of this set -- proposed as a spine for moduli space by Thurston -- is larger than the virtual cohomological dimension of the mapping class group.
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