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Hassett--Keel Program in genus four

Algebraic Geometry 2025-04-30 v1

Abstract

The Hassett--Keel program seeks to give a modular interpretation to the steps of the log minimal model program of Mg\overline{\mathcal{M}}_g. The goal of this paper is to complete the Hassett--Keel program in genus four, supplementing earlier results of Casalaina-Martin--Jensen--Laza and Alper--Fedorchuk--Smyth--van der Wyck. The main tools we use are wall crossing for moduli spaces of pairs in the sense of K-stability and KSBA stability, and the recently constructed moduli spaces of boundary polarized Calabi--Yau surface pairs. We also give a construction of the hyperelliptic flip using a stackified Chow quotient which is expected to generalize to higher genus.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2504.20312,
  title  = {Hassett--Keel Program in genus four},
  author = {Kenneth Ascher and Kristin DeVleming and Yuchen Liu and Xiaowei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.20312},
  year   = {2025}
}

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75 pages. Comments welcome!

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