On the connectedness of the branch locus of moduli space of hyperelliptic Klein surfaces with one boundary

Abstract

In this work, we prove that the hyperelliptic branch locus of orientable Klein surfaces of genus [Formula: see text] with one boundary component is connected and in the case of non-orientable Klein surfaces it has [Formula: see text] components, if [Formula: see text] is odd, and [Formula: see text] components for even [Formula: see text]. We notice that, for non-orientable Klein surfaces with two boundary components, the hyperelliptic branch loci are connected for all genera.