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Moduli of curves with non-abelian level structure

alg-geom 2015-06-30 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Following Deligne and Mumford we construct a coarse moduli space of smooth curves with non-abelian level structure, involving higher order commutators. We prove that its Deligne-Mumford compactification is smooth over an open part of Spec(\msyZ{\msy Z}).

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@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9501003,
  title  = {Moduli of curves with non-abelian level structure},
  author = {Martin Pikaart and Johan de Jong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9501003},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

25 pages, latex, only hand-drawn figures.