Polygonal cycles in higher Chow groups of Jacobians

The aim of this paper is to construct non-trivial cycles in the first higher Chow group of the Jacobian of a curve having special torsion points. The basic tool is to compute the analogue of the Griffiths infinitesimal invariant of the natural normal function defined by the cycle as the curve moves in the corresponding moduli space. We prove also a Torelli-like theorem. The case of genus 2 is considered in the last section. To the memory of Fabio BardelliMathematics Subject Classification (2000) 14C25, 14C34     

The Chow group of the moduli space of marked cubic surfaces

Naruki gave an explicit construction of the moduli space of marked cubic surfaces, starting from a toric variety and proceeding with blow-ups and contractions. Using his result, we compute the Chow groups and the Chern classes of this moduli space. As an application we relate a recent result of Freitag on the Hilbert polynomial of a certain ring of modular forms to the Riemann–Roch theorem for the moduli space. Dedicated to the memory of our friend Fabio BardelliMathematics Subject Classification (2000) 14J15     

A Geometric Interpretation and a New Proof of a Relation by Cornalba and Harris

Abstract

In the 1980's Cornalba and Harris discovered a relation among the Hodge class and the boundary classes in the Picard group with rational coefficients of the moduli space of stable, hyperelliptic curves. They proved the relation by computing degrees of the classes involved for suitable one-parameter families. In the present article we show that their relation can be obtained as the class of an appropriate, geometrically meaningful empty set, thus conforming with Faber's general philosophy of finding relations among tautological classes in the Chow ring of the moduli space of curves. The empty set we consider is the closure of the locus of smooth, hyperelliptic curves having a special ramification point.     

Stability of tri-canonical curves of genus two

We completely classify tri-canonically embedded curves of genus two that are Chow semistable, and identify the moduli space of them with the compact moduli space of binary sextics. This moduli space is the log canonical model for the pair for 7/10 9/11 whose log canonical divisor pulls back to on the moduli stack     

Euler number of the moduli space of sheaves on a rational nodal curve

In this paper, we use finite group actions to compute the Euler number of the moduli space of rank 2 stable sheaves on a rational nodal curve.

     

Vanishing of Chern Classes of the De Rham Bundles for Some Families of Moduli Spaces

Given a family of nonsingular complex projective surfaces, there is a corresponding family of Hilbert schemes of zero dimensional subschemes. We prove that the Chern classes, with values in the rational Chow groups, of the de Rham bundles for such a family of Hilbert schemes vanish. A similar result is proved for any relative moduli space of rank one sheaves with trivial integral first Chern class over any family of complex projective surfaces.     

A Presentation for the Chow Ring of

We give a presentation for the Chow ring of the moduli space of degree 2 stable maps from 2-pointed rational curves to the projective line. Also, integrals of all degree 4 monomials in the hyperplane pullbacks and boundary divisors of this ring are computed using equivariant intersection theory. Finally, the presentation is used to give a new computation of the (previously known) values of the genus zero, degree 2, 2-pointed gravitational correlators of the projective line.     

Deformations of symplectic vortices

We prove a gluing theorem for a symplectic vortex on a compact complex curve and a collection of holomorphic sphere bubbles. Using the theorem we show that the moduli space of regular strongly stable symplectic vortices on a fixed curve with varying markings has the structure of a stratified-smooth topological orbifold. In addition, we show that the moduli space has a non-canonical C ¹-orbifold structure.     

Zero cycles on certain surfaces in arbitrary characteristic

Letk be a field of arbitrary characteristic. LetS be a singular surface defined overk with multiple rational curve singularities and suppose that the Chow group of zero cycles of its normalisation is finite dimensional. We give numerical conditions under which the Chow group of zero cycles ofS is finite dimensional.     

Congruences for rational points on varieties over finite fields

We prove the existence of rational points on singular varieties over finite fields arising as degenerations of smooth proper varieties with trivial Chow group of 0-cycles. We also obtain congruences for the number of rational points of singular varieties appearing as fibres of a proper family with smooth total and base space and such that the Chow group of 0-cycles of the generic fibre is trivial. In particular this leads to a vast generalization of the classical Chevalley-Warning theorem. The above results are obtained as special cases of our main theorem which can be viewed as a relative version of a theorem of H. Esnault on the number of rational points of smooth proper varieties over finite fields with trivial Chow group of 0-cycles.     

On the tangent spaces of Chow groups of certain projective hypersurfaces

In this paper, the Chow groups of projective hypersurfaces are studied. We will prove that if the degree of the hypersurface is sufficiently high, its Chow group is ``small' in the sense that its formal tangent space vanishes. Then, we will give an example in which the formal tangent space is infinite dimensional.

     

The Picard group of the moduli of G-bundles on a curve

Let G be a complex semi-simple group, and X a compact Riemann surface. The moduli space of principal G-bundles on X, and in particular the holomorphic line bundles on this space and their global sections, play an important role in the recent applications of Conformal Field Theory to algebraic geometry. In this paper we determine the Picard group of this moduli space when G is of classical or G₂ coarse moduli space and the moduli stack).     

Zero-cycles on self-product of modular curves

We use the elements in K-cohomology groups which are constructed by Flach and Mildenhall to obtain a finiteness result for the torsion part of the Chow group of a self-product of a modular curve.     

The group of Weierstrass points of a plane quartic with at least eight hyperflexes

The group generated by the Weierstrass points of a smooth curve in its Jacobian is an intrinsic invariant of the curve. We determine this group for all smooth quartics with eight hyperflexes or more. Since Weierstrass points are closely related to moduli spaces of curves, as an application, we get bounds on both the rank and the torsion part of this group for a generic quartic having a fixed number of hyperflexes in the moduli space of curves of genus 3.

     

The number of reducible space curves over a finite field

“Most” hypersurfaces in projective space are irreducible, and rather precise estimates are known for the probability that a random hypersurface over a finite field is reducible. This paper considers the parametrization of space curves by the appropriate Chow variety, and provides bounds on the probability that a random curve over a finite field is reducible.     

Weil-Petersson Areas of The Moduli Spaces Of Tori

We study the Teichmüller spaces of torus with one branch point of order v and of torus with a totally geodesic boundary curve of length m, respectively. Applying the obtained results for the corresponding moduli spaces we find that the Weil-Petersson area of the moduli space of torus with one conical point of order v is (π²/6)(1 - l/v²) and that of the moduli space of torus with a totally geodesic boundary curve of length m is π²/6 + m²/24.     

Higher Intersection Theory on Algebraic Stacks: I

In this paper and the sequel we establish a theory of Chow groups and higher Chow groups on algebraic stacks locally of finite type over a field and establish their basic properties. This includes algebraic stacks in the sense of Deligne–Mumford as well as Artin. An intrinsic difference between our approach and earlier approaches is that the higher Chow groups of Bloch enter into our theory early on and depends heavily on his fundamental work. Our theory may be more appropriately called the (Lichtenbaum) motivic homology and cohomology of algebraic stacks. One of the main themes of these papers is that such a motivic homology does provide a reasonable intersection theory for algebraic stacks (of finite type over a field), with several key properties holding integrally and extending to stacks locally of finite type. While several important properties of our higher Chow groups, like covariance for projective representable maps (that factor as the composition of a closed immersion into the projective space associated to a locally free coherent sheaf and the obvious projection), an intersection pairing and contravariant functoriality for all smooth algebraic stacks, are shown to hold integrally, our theory works best with rational coefficients.The main results of Part I are the following. The higher Chow groups are defined in general with respect to an atlas, but are shown to be independent of the choice of the atlas for smooth stacks if one uses finite coefficients with torsion prime to the characteristics or in general for Deligne–Mumford stacks. (Using some results on motivic cohomology, we extend this integrally to all smooth algebraic stacks in Part II.) Using cohomological descent, we extend Bloch's fundamental localization sequence for quasi-projective schemes to long exact localization sequences of the higher Chow groups modulo torsion for all Artin stacks: this is one of the main results of the paper. We show that these higher Chow groups modulo torsion are covariant for all proper representable maps between stacks of finite type while being contravariant for all representable flat maps and, in Part II, that they are independent of the choice of an atlas for all stacks of finite type over the given field k. The comparison with motivic cohomology, as is worked out in Part II, enables us to provide an explicit comparison of our theory for quotient stacks associated to actions of linear algebraic groups on quasi-projective schemes with the corresponding Totaro–Edidin–Graham equivariant intersection theory. As an application of our theory we compute the higher Chow groups of Deligne–Mumford stacks and show that they are isomorphic modulo torsion to the higher Chow groups of their coarse moduli spaces. As a by-product of our theory we also produce localization sequences in (integral) higher Chow groups for all schemes locally of finite type over a field: these higher Chow groups are defined as the Zariski hypercohomology with respect to the cycle complex.     

Intersection Poincaré Polynomial for Nagaraj–Seshadri moduli space

We compute Betti numbers of both the components of the moduli space of rank 2 semi‐stable torsion‐free sheaves with fixed determinant over a reducible nodal curve with two smooth components intersecting at a node. We also compute the intersection Betti numbers of the moduli space.