Fineness and smoothness of a KSBA moduli of marked cubic surfaces
Algebraic Geometry
2025-06-25 v2
Abstract
By work of Gallardo-Kerr-Schaffler, it is known that Naruki's compactification of the moduli space of marked cubic surfaces is isomorphic to the normalization of the Koll\'ar, Shepherd-Barron, and Alexeev compactification parametrizing pairs , with the sum of the marked lines on , and their stable degenerations. In the current paper, we show that the normalization assumption is not necessary as we prove that this KSBA compactification is smooth. Additionally, we show it is a fine moduli space. This is done by studying the automorphisms and the -Gorenstein obstructions of the stable pairs parametrized by it.
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@article{arxiv.2501.05822,
title = {Fineness and smoothness of a KSBA moduli of marked cubic surfaces},
author = {Hanlong Fang and Luca Schaffler and Xian Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.05822},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
14 pages, 3 figures. Final version. To appear in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society