On Abel maps of stable curves (Q2470253)

The classical Abel map for smooth projective curves was extended to singular integral curves in \textit{A. Altman} and \textit{S. Kleiman} [Adv. Math. 35, No. 1, 50--112 (1980; Zbl 0427.14015)] and considered in detail in several papers [see. e.g. \textit{E. Esteves} and \textit{S. Kleiman}, Adv. Math. 198, No. 2, 484--503 (2005; Zbl 1105.14060)]. Here the authors consider non-integral curves: the stable ones. Their work is essential for the extension of the Abel map to the moduli space of stable curves. They want that Abel maps extends the definition in the smooth case related to the universal line bundle on \(X^d \times X\) and that it varies well in families. They use the coarse moduli spaces for equivalence classes of degree \(d\) semibalanced line bundles on \(X\) or the moduli space of stable genus \(g\) curves [\textit{L. Caporaso}, Am. J. Math. 130, No. 1, 1--47 (2008; Zbl 1155.14023)]. After the construction of the Abel map (which is an essential contribution of the paper) they use their construction to study it. If \(d=1\) they show that the Abel map is as close as possible to be injective and determines the few non-trivial fibers. In the case \(d \geq 2\) they say in the introduction what (at that time) was open.