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The moduli space of rational elliptic surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We show that the moduli space of rational elliptic surfaces admitting a section is locally a complex hyperbolic variety of dimension eight. We compare its Satake-Baily-Borel compactification with a compactification obtained by means of geometric invariant theory, considered by Miranda.

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@article{arxiv.math/0010020,
  title  = {The moduli space of rational elliptic surfaces},
  author = {Gert Heckman and Eduard Looijenga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0010020},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

The use of Weierstrass models led to a simplification and shortening of (the old) Section 3. We have now put this material in Section 2. We also added a few references

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