Universal compactified Jacobians (Q2178380)

Summary: In this paper we describe compactifications of the universal Jacobian stack of line bundles over smooth curves obtained by considering open substacks of the moduli stack of torsion-free rank-1 simple sheaves on reduced curves of given genus. The results we describe are mostly expository and based on Altman-Kleiman and Esteves constructions of compactified Jacobians for families of reduced curves. For the moduli stack of Deligne-Mumford \(n\)-pointed stable curves, we study fine compactifications obtained by imposing stability conditions on the sheaves and we prove that in this situation we get Deligne-Mumford stacks endowed with a projective coarse moduli space.