Some results about equivariant deformations of stable curves (Q2494330)

In previous work [Ann. Inst. Fourier 55, No.~6, 1905--1941 (2005; Zbl 1095.14022)], the author extended cohomological obstruction calculus to group actions from smooth curves to stable curves. Here, he applies these results to the local structure of Hurwitz spaces, in particular to the stack of stable curves of given genus with faithful action of a given group in each fiber and semi-stable quotient of fixed genus. A local-global theorem for universal deformation rings is proven even in the case of a non-discrete set of fixed points, and some further interesting examples of quotients of versal deformation rings are calculated, in particular, for elements of order \(p\) acting in characteristic \(p\).