An elementary GIT construction of the moduli space of stable maps

MaRDI QIDQ938632zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Adam E. Parker

Publication date 26 August 2008

Published in Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604092

zbMATH Keywords

GITmoduli spacesstable maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Geometric invariant theory (14L24)

Abstract: This paper provides a GIT construction of the Moduli Space of Stable Maps as a GIT quotient of the Graph Space by SL(2,C). As a corollary, we get a birational map from the 0-pointed Moduli Space to a projective variety.

Review text

Let \(\bar M_{0,n}(\mathbb P^r,d)\) be the moduli space of degree \(d\) stable maps from genus \(0\) curves to \(\mathbb P^r\) and \(\bar M_{0,n}(\mathbb P^r\times \mathbb P^1,(d,1))\) the ``graph space of stable maps of bidegree \((d,1)\). In the paper under review the author gives a construction of \(\bar M_{0,n}(\mathbb P^r,d)\) as a GIT-geometric quotient of the graph space by the action of \(SL_2\). This construction generalizes \textit{Y. Hu} and \textit{S. Keel}'s construction of \(\bar M_{0,n}\) as a GIT-quotient of the Fulton-MacPherson configuration space \(\mathbb P^1[n]\) by the action of \(SL_2\) in [Mich. Math. J. 48, Spec. Vol., 331--348 (2000; Zbl 1077.14554)]. Let \(\mathbb P^r_d\) denote \(\mathbb P(\bigoplus_0^rH^0(\mathbb P^1, \mathcal O_{\mathbb P^1}(d)))\). The author shows that the (generalized) Givental map \(\Phi:\bar M_{0,n}(\mathbb P^r\times \mathbb P^1,(d,1))\to(\mathbb P^1)^n\times \mathbb P_d^r\) [see \textit{A. B. Givental}, Int. Math. Res. Not. 1996, No. 13, 613--663 (1996; Zbl 0881.55006)] descends to a map \(\bar\Phi\) between (the stable locus for a suitable polarization of) the same spaces modulo the action of \(SL_2\). In the case of no marked points, \(\bar\Phi \) is birational. In this case, the author uses results of \textit{A. Mustaţă} and \textit{M. A. Mustaţă} [Invent. Math. 167, No. 1, 47--90 (2007; Zbl 1111.14018)] to show that \(\bar M_{0,0}(\mathbb P^r,d)\) can be obtained as a sequence of ``weighted blow-ups along regular embeddings of a projective variety. This elementary construction of \(\bar M_{0,0}(\mathbb P^r,d)\) could be useful, for instance, to compute its Chow ring in the spirit of \textit{S. Keel}'s work [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 330, No. 2, 545--574 (1992; Zbl 0768.14002)], where the Chow ring of a blow up is given.

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