English

Modular compactifications of $\mathcal M_{2,n}$ with Gorenstein singularities

Algebraic Geometry 2022-10-19 v2

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 1m<n1\leq m <n, a stability condition - using one of the markings as a reference point, and therefore not Sn\mathfrak S_n-symmetric - defines proper Deligne-Mumford stacks M2,n(m)\overline{\mathcal M}_{2,n}^{(m)} containing the locus of smooth curves as a dense open substack.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-23T09:54:12.326Z