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We consider the moduli space, in the sense of Kisin, of finite flat models of a 2-dimensional representation with values in a finite field of the absolute Galois group of a totally ramified extension of $mathbb{Q}_p$. We determine the connected components of this space and describe its irreducible components. These results prove a modified version of a conjecture of Kisin.
We prove various finiteness and representability results for flat cohomology of finite flat abelian group schemes. In particular, we show that if $f:Xrightarrow mathrm{Spec} (k)$ is a projective scheme over a field $k$ and $G$ is a finite flat abelian group scheme over $X$ then $R^if_*G$ is an algebraic space for all $i$. More generally, we study the derived pushforwards $R^if_*G$ for $f:Xrightarrow S$ a projective morphism and $G$ a finite flat abelian group scheme over $X$. We also develop a theory of compactly supported cohomology for finite flat abelian group schemes, describe cohomology in terms of the cotangent complex for group schemes of height $1$, and relate the Dieudonne modules of the group schemes $R^if_*mu _p$ to cohomology generalizing work of Illusie. A higher categorical version of our main representability results is also presented.
We show that the Brauer group of any moduli space of stable pairs with fixed determinant over a curve is zero.
We give a summary of joint work with Michael Thaddeus that realizes toroidal compactifcations of split reductive groups as moduli spaces of framed bundles on chains of rational curves. We include an extension of this work that covers Artin stacks with good moduli spaces. We discuss, for complex groups, the symplectic counterpart of these compactifications, and conclude with some open problems about the moduli problem concerned.
Let $X$ be a compact Riemann surface $X$ of genus at--least two. Fix a holomorphic line bundle $L$ over $X$. Let $mathcal M$ be the moduli space of Hitchin pairs $(E ,phiin H^0(End(E)otimes L))$ over $X$ of rank $r$ and fixed determinant of degree $d$. We prove that, for some numerical conditions, $mathcal M$ is irreducible, and that the isomorphism class of the variety $mathcal M$ uniquely determines the isomorphism class of the Riemann surface $X$.
We study how the degrees of irrationality of moduli spaces of polarized K3 surfaces grow with respect to the genus. We prove that the growth is bounded by a polynomial function of degree $14+varepsilon$ for any $varepsilon>0$ and, for three sets of infinitely many genera, the bounds can be improved to degree 10. The main ingredients in our proof are the modularity of the generating series of Heegner divisors due to Borcherds and its generalization to higher codimensions due to Kudla, Millson, Zhang, Bruinier, and Westerholt-Raum. For special genera, the proof is also built upon the existence of K3 surfaces associated with certain cubic fourfolds, Gushel-Mukai fourfolds, and hyperkaehler fourfolds.