Modular compactifications of $\mathcal M_{2,n}$ with Gorenstein singularities
Abstract
We study the geometry of Gorenstein curve singularities of genus two, and of their stable limits. These singularities come in two families, corresponding to either Weierstrass or conjugate points on a semistable tail. For every , a stability condition - using one of the markings as a reference point, and therefore not -symmetric - defines proper Deligne-Mumford stacks containing the locus of smooth curves as a dense open substack.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.06367,
title = {Modular compactifications of $\mathcal M_{2,n}$ with Gorenstein singularities},
author = {Luca Battistella},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.06367},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
38 pages, 8 figures, comments are welcome! v2: exposition improved largely due to the referee's comments: - simpler proof of the classification of isolated Gorenstein singularities of genus two using differentials, - description of semistable tails in the language of tropical geometry, - material on crimping spaces moved to an appendix. Revised version to appear in Algebra & Number Theory