The Kodaira dimension of the moduli space of curves of genus ... 23.
Let be a curve over a field with a rational point . We define a canonical cycle . Suppose that is a number field and that has semi-stable reduction over the integers of with fiber components non-singular. We construct a regular model of and show that the height pairing is well defined where and are correspondences. The paper ends with a brief discussion of heights and -functions in the case that is a modular curve.
The moduli space of rank- commutative algebras equipped with an ordered basis is an affine scheme of finite type over , with geometrically connected fibers. It is smooth if and only if . It is reducible if (and the converse holds, at least if we remove the fibers above and ). The relative dimension of is . The subscheme parameterizing étale algebras is isomorphic to , which is of dimension only . For , there exist algebras that are not limits of étale algebras. The dimension calculations...