Stability of tails and 4-canonical models

DOI10.4310/MRL.2010.V17.N4.A11MaRDI QIDQ2275729zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Donghoon Hyeon, Ian Morrison

Publication date 9 August 2011

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1269

zbMATH Keywords

Chow stabilitygeometric invariant theoryHilbert stabilitypseudostable curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fine and coarse moduli spaces (14D22) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Geometric invariant theory (14L24)

Abstract: We show that the GIT quotients of suitable loci in the Hilbert and Chow schemes of 4-canonically embedded curves of genus $gge3$ are the moduli space $$ of pseudo-stable curves constructed by Schubert in cite{Schubert} using Chow varieties and 3-canonical models. The only new ingredient needed in the Hilbert scheme variant is a more careful analysis of the stability with respect to a certain 1-ps $lambda$ of the $m^{extth}$ Hilbert points of curves $X$ with elliptic tails. We compute the exact weight with which $lambda$ acts, and not just the leading term in $m$ of this weight. A similar analysis of stability of curves with rational cuspidal tails allows us to determine the stable and semistable 4-canonical Chow loci. Although here the geometry of the quotient is more complicated because there are strictly semi-stable orbits, we are able to again identify it as $$. Our computations yield, as byproducts, examples of both $m$-Hilbert unstable and $m$-Hilbert stable $X$ that are Chow strictly semi-stable.

Review text

From the abstract: We show that the GIT quotients of suitable loci in the Hilbert and Chow schemes of 4-canonically embedded curves of genus \(g\geq 3\) are the moduli space \(\overline{M}_g^{\text{ps}}\) of pseudostable curves constructed by \textit{D. Schubert} [Compos. Math. 78, No. 3, 297--313 (1991; Zbl 0735.14022)] using Chow varieties and 3-canonical models. The only new ingredient needed in the Hilbert scheme variant is a more careful analysis of the stability with respect to a certain 1-ps \(\lambda\) of the \(m\)th Hilbert points of curves \(X\) with elliptic tails. We compute the exact weight with which \(\lambda\) acts, and not just the leading term in \(m\) of this weight. A similar analysis of stability of curves with rational cuspidal tails allows us to determine the stable and semistable 4-canonical Chow loci. Although here the geometry of the quotient is more complicated because there are strictly semistable orbits, we are able to again identify it as \(\overline{M}_g^{\text{ps}}\). Our computations yield, as byproducts, examples of both \(m\)-Hilbert unstable and \(m\)-Hilbert stable \(X\) that are Chow strictly semistable.

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