On the unirationality of moduli spaces of pointed curves

DOI10.1007/S00209-021-02741-7MaRDI QIDQ2664666zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hanieh Keneshlou, Fabio Tanturri

Publication date 17 November 2021

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07888

zbMATH Keywords

moduli of pointed curvesstable pointed curvesunirationality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10)

Abstract: We show that $mathcal{M}_{g,n}$, the moduli space of smooth curves of genus $g$ together with $n$ marked points, is unirational for $g=12$ and $2leqnleq4$ and for $g=13$ and $1leqnleq3$, by constructing suitable dominant families of projective curves in $mathbb{P}^{1}imesmathbb{P}^2$ and $mathbb{P}^3$ respectively. We also exhibit several new unirationality results for moduli spaces of smooth curves of genus $g$ together with $n$ unordered points, establishing their unirationality for $g=11,n=7$ and $g=12,n=5,6$.

Review text

The authors prove the unirationality of the moduli space \(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}\) of \(n\)-pointed genus \(g\) curves for \(g=12\) and \(2\le n\le 4\) and for \(g=13\) and \(1\le n\le 3\). They construct suitable dominant families of projective curves, in \(\mathbb{P}^1\times \mathbb {P}^2\) for \(g=12\) and \(\mathbb {P}^3\) for \(g=13\). The families in \(\mathbb{P}^1\times \mathbb {P}^2\) and \(\mathbb {P}^3\) are constructed using the Brill-Noether theory of general curves. They give more than one proof of some theorem and reading is pleasant. They also prove several unirationality result for the quotient of \(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}\) by the action of the symmetric group \(S_n\), i.e. for the moduli space of genus \(g\) curves equipped with a subset of cardinality \(n\): \(g=11\) and \(n=7\), \(g=12\) and \(n=5,6\).

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Uses Software

• KoszulDivisorOnPic14M8
• Macaulay2
• MatFacCurvesP4

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