An elementary GIT construction of the moduli space of stable maps (Q938632)

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.