The moduli space of cubic threefolds as a ball quotient

DOI10.1090/S0065-9266-10-00591-0zbMATH Open1211.14002arXivmath/0608287MaRDI QIDQ3078441FDOQ3078441

Authors: Daniel Allcock, James A. Carlson, Domingo Toledo 

Publication date: 21 February 2011

Published in: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The moduli space of cubic threefolds in CP4, with some minor birational modifications, is the Baily-Borel compactification of the quotient of the complex 10-ball by a discrete group. We describe both the birational modifications and the discrete group explicitly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608287

Recommendations

• The complex hyperbolic geometry of the moduli space of cubic surfaces
• Moduli of cubic surfaces and Hodge theory (after Allcock, Carlson, Toledo)
• A complex hyperbolic structure for moduli of cubic surfaces
• Real cubic surfaces and real hyperbolic geometry
• Moduli spaces of symmetric cubic fourfolds and locally symmetric varieties
• The moduli space of cubic surface pairs via the intermediate Jacobians of Eckardt cubic threefolds
• The uniformizing differential equation of the complex hyperbolic structure on the moduli space of marked cubic surfaces
• A complex ball uniformization of the moduli space of cubic surfaces via periods ofK3 surfaces
• Hyperbolic geometry and moduli of real cubic surfaces
• Cohomology of the Moduli Space of Cubic Threefolds and Its Smooth Models

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spaceperiod mapball quotientcubic threefold.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-02) (3)-folds (14J30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to several complex variables and analytic spaces (32-02) Period matrices, variation of Hodge structure; degenerations (32G20)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Monodromy of hypergeometric functions and non-lattice integral monodromy
• The complex hyperbolic geometry of the moduli space of cubic surfaces
• A complex hyperbolic structure for the moduli space of curves of genus three
• Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces. (AM-61)
• Degeneration of Kähler manifolds
• On the periods of certain rational integrals. I, II
• Finite Unitary Reflection Groups
• Differential Equations Invariant Under Finite Reflection Groups
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Die Fundamentalgruppe des Raumes der regulären Orbits einer endlichen komplexen Spiegelungsgruppe
• Algebraic Geometry. I: Complex projective varieties.
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On the Classification of Cubic Surfaces
• Stability and equivariant maps
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Generalized Picard lattices arising from half-integral conditions
• Half twists of Hodge structures of CM-type.
• Théorème de Torelli pour les cubiques de \({\mathbb{P}}^ 5\). (Torelli theorem for the cubics of \({\mathbb{P}}^ 5)\)
• Un résultat sur la monodromie. (A result on the monodromy)
• The moduli space of cubic threefolds
• The Leech lattice and complex hyperbolic reflections
• Discriminants in the invariant theory of reflection groups
• Orbits of linear algebraic groups
• The complex Lorentzian Leech lattice and the bimonster
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Mixed Hodge theory for unitary local Systems
• Stability of cubic 3-folds.
• On period maps that are open embeddings
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The period map for cubic threefolds
• Half twists and the cohomology of hypersurfaces
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Tangent Cones to Discriminant Loci for Families of Hypersurfaces

Cited In (51)

• Algebraic and arithmetic properties of period maps
• Canonical sections of Hodge bundles on moduli spaces
• The Moduli Space of Cubic Threefolds with a Non-Eckardt Type Involution via Intermediate Jacobians
• Universally irreducible subvarieties of Siegel moduli spaces
• Moduli of plane quartics, Göpel invariants and Borcherds products
• Compactifications of the moduli space of plane quartics and two lines
• The Segre cubic and Borcherds products
• The moduli space of cubic threefolds
• Cubic threefolds and hyperkähler manifolds uniformized by the 10-dimensional complex ball
• The moduli space of cubic fourfolds via the period map
• Reflection groups in algebraic geometry
• The class of the locus of intermediate Jacobians of cubic threefolds
• Complex ball quotients from manifolds of \(K3^{[n]}\)-type
• The Fano normal function
• Hodge theory of degenerations. I: Consequences of the decomposition theorem
• Remarks on degenerations of hyper-Kähler manifolds
• ORBIFOLD ASPECTS OF CERTAIN OCCULT PERIOD MAPS
• Moduli of nodal sextic curves via periods of \(K3\) surfaces
• Moduli of cubic surfaces and Hodge theory (after Allcock, Carlson, Toledo)
• On the moduli space of pairs consisting of a cubic threefold and a hyperplane
• Braid groups and Hodge theory
• The period map for cubic threefolds
• Equivariant \(K\)-stability under finite group action
• Cohomology of the Moduli Space of Cubic Threefolds and Its Smooth Models
• A complex ball uniformization of the moduli space of cubic surfaces via periods ofK3 surfaces
• Irrationality and monodromy for cubic threefolds
• Arithmetic Torelli maps for cubic surfaces and threefolds
• The complex ball-quotient structure of the moduli space of certain sextic curves
• Uniruledness of some low-dimensional ball quotients
• Quotients of the complex ball by discrete groups
• Reflective obstructions of unitary modular varieties
• The second fundamental form of the moduli space of cubic threefolds in $\mathcal A_5$
• Moduli spaces of symmetric cubic fourfolds and locally symmetric varieties
• Boundedness of the period maps and global Torelli theorem
• Effective computation of Picard groups and Brauer-Manin obstructions of degree two \(K3\) surfaces over number fields
• Automorphisms and periods of cubic fourfolds
• A new complex reflection group in \(PU(9,1)\) and the Barnes-Wall lattice
• Moduli spaces of cubic threefolds and of irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds
• Polarized relations on horizontal \(\operatorname{SL}(2)\)'s
• A three dimensional ball quotient
• A gem of the modular universe
• Algebraic cycles on certain hyperkähler fourfolds with an order 3 non-symplectic automorphism. II
• The moduli space of cubic surface pairs via the intermediate Jacobians of Eckardt cubic threefolds
• Complete moduli of cubic threefolds and their intermediate Jacobians
• The Kodaira dimension of complex hyperbolic manifolds with cusps
• The moduli space of \((3,3,3)\) trilinear forms
• A compactification of \(\mathcal{M}_{3}\) via \(K3\) surfaces
• Remarks on eigenspectra of isolated singularities
• Non-geometric Calabi-Yau backgrounds and K3 automorphisms
• Generators for a complex hyperbolic braid group
• Theta constants associated to cubic threefolds

Uses Software

• Maple
• PARI/GP

This page was built for publication: The moduli space of cubic threefolds as a ball quotient

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3078441)