On the rigidity of moduli of weighted pointed stable curves

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2017.11.014MaRDI QIDQ1748396zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Barbara Fantechi, Alex Massarenti

Publication date 11 May 2018

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05861

zbMATH Keywords

infinitesimal deformationsmoduli of curvesrigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibrations, degenerations in algebraic geometry (14D06) Fine and coarse moduli spaces (14D22) Stacks and moduli problems (14D23) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10)

Abstract: Let $overline{mathcalM}_{g,A[n]}$ be the Hassett moduli stack of weighted stable curves, and let $overline{M}_{g,A[n]}$ be its coarse moduli space. These are compactifications of $mathcal{M}_{g,n}$ and $M_{g,n}$ respectively, obtained by assigning rational weights $A=(a_1,\mathrm{...},a_n)$, $0<a_{i}leq1$ to the markings; they are defined over $mathbbZ$, and therefore over any field. We study the first order infinitesimal deformations of $overline{mathcalM}_{g,A[n]}$ and $overline{M}_{g,A[n]}$. In particular, we show that $overline{M}_{0,A[n]}$ is rigid over any field, if $ggeq1$ then $overline{mathcalM}_{g,A[n]}$ is rigid over any field of characteristic zero, and if $g+n>4$ then the coarse moduli space $overline{M}_{g,A[n]}$ is rigid over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Finally, we take into account a degeneration of Hassett spaces parametrizing rational curves obtained by allowing the weights to have sum equal to two. In particular, we consider such a Hassett $3$-fold which is isomorphic to the Segre cubic hypersurface in $mathbb{P}^4$, and we prove that its family of first order infinitesimal deformations is non-singular of dimension ten, and the general deformation is smooth.

Review text

Let \(A = (a_1, \ldots, a_n)\) be a sequence of rational numbers \(0 < a_i \leq 1\). \textit{B. Hassett} [Adv. Math. 173, No. 2, 316--352 (2003; Zbl 1072.14014)] constructed a moduli stack \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{g, A}\) that compactifies the moduli space \(\mathcal M_{g,n}\) of smooth \(n\)-pointed genus \(g\) curves, by assigning the weight \(a_i\) to the \(i\)th marked point, and the special case \(A = (1, \ldots, 1)\) corresponds to the classical Deligne-Mumford compactification. In this paper the authors study the first order infinitesimal deformations of the moduli stack \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{g, A}\) and its coarse moduli space \(\overline{M}_{g, A}\). The main result shows that if \(g=0\) then \(\overline{M}_{0, A}\) is rigid over any field, if \(g\geq 1\) then \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{g, A}\) is rigid over any field of characteristic zero, and if \(g + n > 4\) then \(\overline{M}_{g, A}\) is rigid over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. The proof builds on techniques developed by the authors in previous work [``On the rigidity of moduli of curves in arbitrary characteristic, Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2017, No. 8, 2431--2463 (2017)]. Certain degenerations of Hassett spaces and applications to the Segre cubic hypersurface are also discussed.

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