On some modular contractions of the moduli space of stable pointed curves

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study some modular contractions of the moduli space of stable pointed curves. These new moduli spaces, which are modular compactifications of the moduli space of smooth pointed curves, are related with the minimal model program for the moduli space of stable pointed curves and have been introduced in a previous work of the authors. We interpret them as log canonical models of adjoints divisors and we then describe the Shokurov decomposition of a region of boundary divisors on the moduli space of stable pointed curves.


Let \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{g,n}\) be the Deligne-Mumford-Knudsen moduli space of stable genus \(g\) curves with \(n\) marked points. In recent years it has been an important question to investigate the minimal model program for \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{g,n}\) (also called the Hassett-Keel program), where the birational models arising in the program can provide alternate modular compactifications for the moduli space of smooth pointed curves. In this paper the authors study a specific kind of birational models of \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{g,n}\) which are induced by adjoint divisors (in the sense of generalized log canonical pairs). As a corollary, they describe the decomposition in Shokurov polytopes of a region of adjoint divisors on \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{g,n}\).











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