Moduli of G-covers of curves: geometry and singularities

Abstract: In a recent paper Chiodo and Farkas described the singular locus and the locus of non-canonical singularities of the moduli space of level curves. In this work we generalize their results to the moduli space

o v e r l i n e {m a t h c a l R}_{g, G}

of curves with a

G

-cover for any finite group

G

. We show that non-canonical singularities are of two types:

T

-curves, that is singularities lifted from the moduli space

o v e r l i n e {m a t h c a l M}_{g}

of stable curves, and

J

-curves, that is new singularities entirely characterized by the dual graph of the cover. Finally, we prove that in the case

G = S_{3}

, the

J

-locus is empty, which is the first fundamental step in evaluating the Kodaira dimension of

o v e r l i n e {m a t h c a l R}_{g, S_{3}}

.

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