Topological methods in moduli theory

DOI10.1007/S13373-015-0070-1MaRDI QIDQ887211zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fabrizio Catanese

Publication date 28 October 2015

Published in Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3235

zbMATH Keywords

absolute Galois groupBagnera-de Franchis varietiesclassifying spacesgroup cohomologygroup homologygroup of automorphismsmoduli spacesprojective varietiessymmetry marked moduli spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Families, moduli, classification: algebraic theory (14J10) Moduli, classification: analytic theory; relations with modular forms (14J15) Surfaces of general type (14J29)

Abstract: One of the main themes of this long article is the study of projective varieties which are K(H,1)'s, i.e. classifying spaces BH for some discrete group H. After recalling the basic properties of such classifying spaces, an important class of such varieties is introduced, the one of Bagnera-de Franchis varieties, the quotients of an Abelian variety by the free action of a cyclic group. Moduli spaces of Abelian varieties and of algebraic curves enter into the picture as examples of rational K(H,1)'s, through Teichmueller theory. The main thrust of the paper is to show how in the case of K(H,1)'s the study of moduli spaces and deformation classes can be achieved through by now classical results concerning regularity of classifying maps. The Inoue type varieties of Bauer and Catanese are introduced and studied as a key example, and new results are shown. Motivated from this study, the moduli spaces of algebraic varieties, and especially of algebraic curves with a group of automorphisms of a given topological type are studied in detail, following new results by the author, Michael Loenne and Fabio Perroni. Finally, the action of the absolute Galois group on the moduli spaces of such K(H,1) varieties is studied. In the case of surfaces isogenous to a product, it is shown how this yields a faifhtul action on the set of connected components of the moduli space: for each Galois automorphisms of order different from 2 there is a surface S such that the Galois conjugate surface of S has fundamental group not isomorphic to the one of S.

Review text

This is a very long survey paper, discussing several topological methods that can be and have been used (for example by the author and his collaborators) for studying moduli spaces of algebraic varieties. The paper starts with a general introduction, including classical results as Zeuthen-Segre and Lefschetz' theorems. It considers classifying spaces, concentrating on some special classes of projective varieties. Local symmetric varieties and Bagnera-De Franchis varieties are discussed. The paper treats in detail some classical topics at a level oriented towards graduate students as orbifold fundamental group, Teichmüller spaces. moduli spaces of curves, group homology. Several concrete moduli spaces are explicitely investigated, including varieties isogenous to a product and Inoue type varieties where the moduli space is determined by the topological type. The author explains the differences among considering small deformations of the minimal model and of the canonical model of a surface of general type, so motivating the choice of most researchers to consider the Gieseker moduli space of the surfaces of general type. In the final part the author consider deformation of symmetry marked varieties. leading, among other applications, to some results on the singular locus of the moduli space of curves and its compactification. One more argument touched is the action of the absolute Galois group \(\mathrm{Gal}(\bar{\mathbb Q},{\mathbb Q})\) on the set of varieties.

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