The adjunction mapping and hyperelliptic divisors on a surface.
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...
This paper deals with the Nash problem, which consists in comparing the number of families of arcs on a singular germ of surface with the number of essential components of the exceptional divisor in the minimal resolution of this singularity. We prove their equality in the case of the rational double points ().