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Equivalence of families of singular schemes on threefolds and on ruled fourfolds.

Flaminio Flamini (2004)

Collectanea Mathematica

The main purpose of this paper is twofold. We first analyze in detail the meaningful geometric aspect of the method introduced in [12], concerning families of irreducible, nodal curves on a smooth, projective threefold X. This analysis gives some geometric interpretations not investigated in [12] and highlights several interesting connections with families of other singular geometric objects related to X and to other varieties. Then we use this method to study analogous problems for families of...

Essential dimension of moduli of curves and other algebraic stacks

Patrick Brosnan, Zinovy Reichstein, Angelo Vistoli (2011)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

In this paper we consider questions of the following type. Let k be a base field and K / k be a field extension. Given a geometric object X over a field K (e.g. a smooth curve of genus g ), what is the least transcendence degree of a field of definition of X over the base field k ? In other words, how many independent parameters are needed to define X ? To study these questions we introduce a notion of essential dimension for an algebraic stack. Using the resulting theory, we give a complete answer to...

Euler characteristics of moduli spaces of curves

Gilberto Bini, John Harer (2011)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

Let M g n be the moduli space of n -pointed Riemann surfaces of genus g . Denote by M g n ¯ the Deligne-Mumford compactification of M g n . In the present paper, we calculate the orbifold and the ordinary Euler characteristic of M g n ¯ for any g and n such that n > 2 - 2 g .

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