Moduli Spaces of Unordered n\ge5 Points on the Riemann Sphere and Their Singularities

arXiv1704.07583MaRDI QIDQ6285907FDOQ6285907

Authors: Yue Wu, Bin Xu 

Publication date: 25 April 2017

Abstract: For $nge5$, it is well known that the moduli space $mathfrak{M}_{0,:n}$ of unordered $n$ points on the Riemann sphere is a quotient space of the Zariski open set $K_n$ of $mathbb{C}^{n-3}$ by an $S_n$ action. The stabilizers of this $S_n$ action at certain points of this Zariski open set $K_n$ correspond to the groups fixing the sets of $n$ points on the Riemann sphere. Let $alpha$ be a subset of $n$ distinct points on the Riemann sphere. We call the group of all linear fractional transformations leaving $alpha$ invariant the stabilizer of $alpha$, which is finite by observation. For each non-trivial finite subgroup $G$ of the group $mPSL(2,BbbC)$ of linear fractional transformations, we give the necessary and sufficient condition for finite subsets of the Riemann sphere under which the stabilizers of them are conjugate to $G$. We also prove that there does exist some finite subset of the Riemann sphere whose stabilizer coincides with $G$. Next we obtain the irreducible decompositions of the representations of the stabilizers on the tangent spaces at the singularities of $mathfrak{M}_{0,:n}$. At last, on $mathfrak{M}_{0,:5}$ and $mathfrak{M}_{0,:6}$, we work out explicitly the singularities and the representations of their stabilizers on the tangent spaces at them.

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