Equivariant vector bundles over affine subsets of the projective line
In this paper we consider questions of the following type. Let be a base field and be a field extension. Given a geometric object over a field (e.g. a smooth curve of genus ), what is the least transcendence degree of a field of definition of over the base field ? In other words, how many independent parameters are needed to define ? 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...
Let the field be complete w.r.t. a non-archimedean valuation. Let be a Mumford curve, i.e. the irreducible components of the stable reduction of have genus 0. The abelian etale coverings of are constructed using the analytic uniformization and the theta-functions on . For a local field one rediscovers . Frey’s description of the maximal abelian unramified extension of the field of rational functions of .
Let be the moduli space of -pointed Riemann surfaces of genus . Denote by the Deligne-Mumford compactification of . In the present paper, we calculate the orbifold and the ordinary Euler characteristic of for any and such that .