On degenerations of fiber spaces of curves of genus \(\geqq 2\) (Q1383623): Difference between revisions

This announcement is concerned with the study of degenerations of fibered surfaces via degenerations of the base curve and the fibers. The authors consider a surface of general type \(X\) admitting a fibration \(X\to S\) with base genus \(\geq 2\) and show that for a weakly projective degeneration of such a surface, which satisfies a certain condition on monodromy, the components of the singular fiber are one from three possibilities, namely they may be rational surfaces, ruled surfaces or surfaces fibered over a curve obtained from the degeneration of the base curve \(S\).