Polar parts and the ELSV compactification (Q386669)

This paper deals with the moduli space of pointed curves equipped with a meromorphic function with prescribed polar part. More specifically, the poles are just along the marked points and they have prescribed order. The author takes a rather stacky point of view. The unique restriction about the base field is that its characteristic does not divide the order of the poles. The author studies a compactification of this moduli space which was originally constructed in [\textit{T. Ekedahl} et al., Invent. Math. 146, No. 2, 297--327 (2001; Zbl 1073.14041)]. The paper is written in French.