The cohomology rings of moduli stacks of principal bundles over curves.
Inspired by the ideas of the minimal model program, Shepherd-Barron, Kollár, and Alexeev have constructed a geometric compactification for the moduli space of surfaces of log general type. In this paper, we discuss one of the simplest examples that fits into this framework: the case of pairs consisting of a degree two surface and an ample divisor . Specifically, we construct and describe explicitly a geometric compactification for the moduli of degree two pairs. This compactification...
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...