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We consider the family $mathrm{MP}_d$ of affine conjugacy classes of polynomial maps of one complex variable with degree $d geq 2$, and study the map $Phi_d:mathrm{MP}_dto widetilde{Lambda}_d subset mathbb{C}^d / mathfrak{S}_d$ which maps each $f in mathrm{MP}_d$ to the set of fixed-point multipliers of $f$. We show that the local fiber structure of the map $Phi_d$ around $bar{lambda} in widetilde{Lambda}_d$ is completely determined by certain two sets $mathcal{I}(lambda)$ and $mathcal{K}(lambda)$ which are subsets of the power set of ${1,2,ldots,d }$. Moreover for any $bar{lambda} in widetilde{Lambda}_d$, we give an algorithm for counting the number of elements of each fiber $Phi_d^{-1}left(bar{lambda}right)$ only by using $mathcal{I}(lambda)$ and $mathcal{K}(lambda)$. It can be carried out in finitely many steps, and often by hand.
We give a characterizaton of smooth ample Hypersurfaces in Abelian Varieties and also describe an irreducible connected component of their moduli space: it consists of the Hypersurfaces of a given polarization type, plus the iterated univariate coverings of normal type (of the same polarization type). The above manifolds yield also a connected component of the open set of Teichmuller space consisting of Kahler complex structures.
A portrait is a combinatorial model for a discrete dynamical system on a finite set. We study the geometry of portrait moduli spaces, whose points correspond to equivalence classes of point configurations on the affine line for which there exist polynomials realizing the dynamics of a given portrait. We present results and pose questions inspired by a large-scale computational survey of intersections of portrait moduli spaces for polynomials in low degree.
We define a class of surfaces corresponding to the ADE root lattices and construct compactifications of their moduli spaces as quotients of projective varieties for Coxeter fans, generalizing Losev-Manin spaces of curves. We exhibit modular families over these moduli spaces, which extend to families of stable pairs over the compactifications. One simple application is a geometric compactification of the moduli of rational elliptic surfaces that is a finite quotient of a projective toric variety.
Let M be the moduli scheme of canonically polarized manifolds with Hilbert polynomial h. We construct for a given finite set I of natural numbers m>1 with h(m)>0 a projective compactification M of the reduced scheme underlying M such that the ample invertible sheaf L corresponding to the determinant of the direct image of the m-th power of the relative dualizing sheaf on the moduli stack, has a natural extension L to M. A similar result is shown for moduli of polarized minimal models of Kodaira dimension zero. In both cases natural means that the pullback of L to a curve C --> M, induced by a family f:X --> C is isomorphic to the determinant of the direct image of the m-th power of the relative dualizing sheaf whenever f is birational to a semi-stable family. Besides of the weak semistable reduction of Abramovich-Karu and the extension theorem of Gabber there are new tools, hopefully of interest by itself. In particular we will need a theorem on the flattening of multiplier sheaves in families, on their compatibility with pullbacks and on base change for their direct images, twisted by certain semiample sheaves. Following suggestions of a referee, we reorganized the article, we added several comments explaining the main line of the proof, and we changed notations a little bit.
Kodaira fibred surfaces are a remarkable example of projective classifying spaces, and there are still many intriguing open questions concerning them, especially the slope question. The topological characterization of Kodaira fibrations is emblematic of the use of topological methods in the study of moduli spaces of surfaces and higher dimensional complex algebraic varieties, and their compactifications. The paper contains some new results but is mostly a survey paper, dealing with fibrations, questions on monodromy and factorizations in the mapping class group, old and new results on Variation of Hodge Structures, especially a recent answer given (in joint work with Dettweiler) to a long standing question posed by Fujita. In the landscape of our tour, Galois coverings, deformations and rigid manifolds (new results obtained with Ingrid Bauer) projective classifying spaces, the action of the absolute Galois group on moduli spaces, stand also in the forefront. These questions lead to interesting algebraic surfaces, for instance the BCDH surfaces, hypersurfaces in Bagnera-de Franchis varieties, Inoue-type surfaces.