Base change behavior of the relative canonical sheaf related to higher dimensional moduli

DOI10.2140/ANT.2013.7.353MaRDI QIDQ1951007zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zsolt Patakfalvi

Publication date 28 May 2013

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.5207, http://msp.org/ant/2013/7-2/p04.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

base changeCohen-Macaulaydegenerationsdepthdualizing complexmoduli of stable varietiesrelative canonical sheaf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibrations, degenerations in algebraic geometry (14D06) Minimal model program (Mori theory, extremal rays) (14E30) Differentials and other special sheaves; D-modules; Bernstein-Sato ideals and polynomials (14F10) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Families, moduli, classification: algebraic theory (14J10)

Abstract: We show that the compatibility of the relative canonical sheaf with base change fails generally in families of normal varieties. Furthermore, it always fails if the general fiber of a family of pure dimension n is Cohen-Macaulay and the special fiber contains a strictly S_{n-1} point. In particular, in moduli spaces with functorial relative canonical sheaves Cohen-Macaulay schemes can not degenerate to S_{n-1} schemes. Another, less immediate consequence is that the canonical sheaf of an S_{n-1}, G_2 scheme of pure dimension n is not S_3.

Review text

In this paper it is shown that one of the aimed assumptions for constructing the moduli space of stable schemes does not hold. I.e., even for flat families of normal varieties the relative canonical sheaf is not compatible with base change. The proof of the main theorem (1.2) is constructive and gives a method to find flat families of \(S_j\) varieties (with \(\dim (X) > j \geq 2\)) and central fiber with just a singular point for which the base change does not hold. Furthermore, interesting results with several geometric consequences are given considering the intersection of the \(S_{n-1}\) locus and the components of the central fiber.

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