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A boundary divisor in the moduli space of stable quintic surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2014-07-29 v1

Abstract

We give a bound on which singularities may appear on Koll\'ar--Shepherd-Barron--Alexeev stable surfaces for a wide range of topological invariants and use this result to describe all stable numerical quintic surfaces (KSBA-stable surfaces with K2=χ=5K^2=\chi=5) whose unique non Du Val singularity is a Wahl singularity. We then extend the deformation theory of Horikawa to the log setting in order to describe the boundary divisor of the moduli space M5,5\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{5,5} corresponding to these surfaces. Quintic surfaces are the simplest examples of surfaces of general type and the question of describing their moduli is a long-standing question in algebraic geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1407.7148,
  title  = {A boundary divisor in the moduli space of stable quintic surfaces},
  author = {Julie Rana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.7148},
  year   = {2014}
}

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58 pages, 13 figures. Comments welcome