Moduli of twisted spin curves

In this note we give a new, natural construction of a compactification of the stack of smooth -spin curves, which we call the stack of stable twisted -spin curves. This stack is identified with a special case of a stack of twisted stable maps of Abramovich and Vistoli. Realizations in terms of admissible -spaces and -line bundles are given as well. The infinitesimal structure of this stack is described in a relatively straightforward manner, similar to that of usual stable curves.

We construct representable morphisms from the stacks of stable twisted -spin curves to the stacks of stable -spin curves and show that they are isomorphisms. Many delicate features of -spin curves, including torsion free sheaves with power maps, arise as simple by-products of twisted spin curves. Various constructions, such as the -operator of Seeley and Singer and Witten's cohomology class go through without complications in the setting of twisted spin curves.

     

Moduli for principal bundles over algebraic curves: II

We classify principal bundles on a compact Riemann surface. A moduli space for semistable principal bundles with a reductive structure group is constructed using Mumford’s geometric invariant theory. This is the second and concluding part of the thesis of late Professor A Ramanathan; the first part was published in the previous issue.     

Moduli for principal bundles over algebraic curves: I

We classify principal bundles on a compact Riemann surface. A moduli space for semistable principal bundles with a reductive structure group is constructed using Mumford's geometric invarian theory.     

Invariant hypercomplex structures and algebraic curves

We show that $U(k)$-invariant hypercomplex structures on (open subsets) of regular semisimple adjoint orbits in $\mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}(k,\mathbb{C})$ correspond to algebraic curves C of genus ${(k-1)}^2$, equipped with a flat projection $\pi :C\to {\mathbb{P}}^1$ of degree k, and an antiholomorphic involution $\sigma :C\to C$ covering the antipodal map on ${\mathbb{P}}^1$.     

Algebraic geometry over algebraic structures. II. Foundations

In this paper, we introduce elements of algebraic geometry over an arbitrary algebraic structure. We prove so-called unification theorems that describe coordinate algebras of algebraic sets in several different ways.     

Moduli of products of curves

Some technical results on the deformations of varieties of general type and on permanence of semi-log-canonical singularities are proved. These results are applied to show that the connected component of the moduli space of stable surfaces containing the moduli point of a product of stable curves is the product of the moduli spaces of the curves, assuming the curves have different genera. An application of this result shows that even after compactifying the moduli space and fixing numerical invariants, the moduli spaces are still very disconnected.Received: 20 February 2004     

Complex algebraic plane curves via their links at infinity

Summary Considering that the study of plane cuves has an over 2000 year history and is the seed from which modern algebraic geometry grew, surprisingly little is known about the topology of affine algebraic plane curves. We topologically classify regular algebraic plane curves in complex affine 2-space using splice diagrams: certain decorated trees that code Puiseux data at infinity. (The regularity condition — that the curve be a typical fiber of its defining polynomial — can conjecturally be avoided.) We also show that the splice diagram determines such algebraic information as the minimal degree of the curve, even in the irregular case. Among other things, this enables algebraic classification of regular algebraic plane curves with given topology.     

Algebraic geometry over algebraic structures. IV. Equational domains and codomains

We introduce and study equational domains and equational codomains. Informally, an equational domain is an algebra every finite union of algebraic sets over which is an algebraic set; an equational codomain is an algebra every proper finite union of algebraic sets over which is not an algebraic set.     

Moduli of metaplectic bundles on curves and Theta-sheaves

We give a geometric interpretation of the Weil representation of the metaplectic group, placing it in the framework of the geometric Langlands program.For a smooth projective curve X we introduce an algebraic stack of metaplectic bundles on X. It also has a local version , which is a gerbe over the affine Grassmanian of G. We define a categorical version of the (nonramified) Hecke algebra of the metaplectic group. This is a category of certain perverse sheaves on , which act on by Hecke operators. A version of the Satake equivalence is proved describing as a tensor category. Further, we construct a perverse sheaf on corresponding to the Weil representation and show that it is a Hecke eigen-sheaf with respect to .