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The Mumford conjecture (after Bianchi)

Algebraic Topology 2025-03-17 v2 Algebraic Geometry Geometric Topology

Abstract

We give a self-contained and streamlined rendition of Andrea Bianchi's recent proof of the Mumford conjecture using moduli spaces of branched covers.

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@article{arxiv.2402.06232,
  title  = {The Mumford conjecture (after Bianchi)},
  author = {Ronno Das and Dan Petersen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06232},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

23 pages. Final version to appear in Journal of Topology

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