The Cross-ratio Compactification of the Configuration Space of Ordered Points on 

A natural compactification of the virtual configuration space of N points on the Riemann sphere  is constructed by using cross-ratios. We show that this compactification is homeomorphic to the Bers' compactification of the virtual moduli space of a punctured Riemann sphere of type N . In particular, the system of global and explicit coordinates of this standard compactification is given by cross-ratios.     

An explicit semi-factorial compactification of the Néron model

C. Pépin recently constructed a semi-factorial compactification of the Néron model of an Abelian variety using the flattening technique of Raynaud–Gruson. Here we prove that an explicit semi-factorial compactification is a certain moduli space of sheaves — the family of compactified Jacobians.     

Twisted cubics, bis

We consider the smooth compactification constructed in [12] for a space of varieties like twisted cubics. We show this compactification embeds naturally in a product of flag varieties.Partially supported by CNPq, Pronex (ALGA)     

Quotient space of LMC-compactification as a space of z-filters

The left multiplicative continuous compactification is the universal semigroup compactification of a semitopological semigroup. In this paper an internal construction of a quotient space of the left multiplicative continuous compactification of a semitopological semigroup is constructed as a space of z-filters.     

模糊紧空间在其一个自然的Hilbert方体紧化中的拓扑位置

以讨论模糊紧空间在其一个自然的Hilbert方体紧化中的拓扑位置为目的,利用Hilbert方体中伪边界的拓扑刻画,得出模糊紧空间是其Hilbert方体紧化的伪内部。     

A compactification of the moduli variety of stable vector 2-bundles on a surface in the Hilbert scheme

A new compactification of the variety of moduli of stable vector 2-bundles with Chern classes c ₁ and c ₂ is constructed for the case in which the universal family of stable sheaves with given values of invariants is defined and there are no strictly semistable sheaves. The compactification is a subvariety in the Hilbert scheme of subschemes of a Grassmann manifold with fixed Hilbert polynomial; it is obtained from the variety of bundle moduli by adding points corresponding to locally free sheaves on surfaces which are modifications of the initial surface. Moreover, a morphism from the new compactification of the moduli space to its Gieseker-Maruyama compactification is constructed.     

Unification of extremal length geometry on Teichmüller space via intersection number

In this paper, we give a framework for the study of the extremal length geometry of Teichmüller space after S. Kerckhoff, F. Gardiner and H. Masur. There is a natural compactification using extremal length geometry introduced by Gardiner and Masur. The compactification is realized in a certain projective space. We develop the extremal length geometry in the cone which is defined as the inverse image of the compactification via the quotient mapping. The compactification is identified with a subset of the cone by taking an appropriate lift. The cone contains canonically the space of measured foliations in the boundary. We first extend the geometric intersection number on the space of measured foliations to the cone, and observe that the restriction of the intersection number to Teichmüller space is represented by an explicit formula in terms of the Gromov product with respect to the Teichmüller distance. From this observation, we deduce that the Gromov product extends continuously to the compactification. As an application, we obtain an alternative approach to a characterization of the isometry group of Teichmüller space. We also obtain a new realization of Teichmüller space, a hyperboloid model of Teichmüller space with respect to the Teichmüller distance.     

Teichmüller rays and the Gardiner–Masur boundary of Teichmüller space II

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of Teichmüller geodesic rays in the Gardiner–Masur compactification. We will observe that any Teichmüller geodesic ray converges in the Gardiner–Masur compactification. Therefore, we get a mapping from the space of projective measured foliations to the Gardiner–Masur boundary by assigning the limits of associated Teichmüller rays. We will show that this mapping is injective but is neither surjective nor continuous. We also discuss the set of points where this mapping is bicontinuous.     

The abelian monodromy extension property for families of curves

Necessary and sufficient conditions are given (in terms of monodromy) for extending a family of smooth curves over an open subset to a family of stable curves over S. More precisely, we introduce the abelian monodromy extension (AME) property and show that the standard Deligne–Mumford compactification is the unique, maximal AME compactification of the moduli space of curves. We also show that the Baily–Borel compactification is the unique, maximal projective AME compactification of the moduli space of abelian varieties.     

The Weil–Petersson Visual Sphere

We formulate and describe a visual compactification of the Teichmüller space by Weil–Petersson geodesic rays emanating from a point X. We focus on analogies with Bers’s compactification: due to noncompleteness, finite rays correspond to cusps, and such cusps are dense in the visual sphere. By analogy with a result of Kerckhoff and Thurston, we show the natural action of the mapping class group does not extend continuously to the visual compactification. We conclude with examples that distinguish the visual boundary from Bers’s boundary for Teichmüller space Research partially supported by NSF Grants DMS 0204454 and 0354288     

On polyhedral retracts and compactifications of locally symmetric spaces

The results in this paper are based on a previously constructed exhaustion of a locally symmetric space V=ΓX by Riemannian polyhedra, i.e., compact submanifolds with corners: V=_s0V(s). We show that the interior of every polyhedron V(s) is homeomorphic to V. The universal covering space X(s) of V(s) is quasi-isometric to the discrete group Γ. It can be written as the complement of a Γ-invariant union of horoballs in X (which in general have intersections giving rise to the corners). This yields exponential isoperimetric inequalities for Γπ₁(V(s)). We also discuss the relation of this compactification of V with the Borel–Serre compactification.     

Compactifications in which the collection of multiple points is Lindelöf semi-stratifiable

We show that every compactification of a topological space in which the collection of multiple points is Lindelöf semi-stratifiable is a z-compactification. In particular such a compactification is a Wallman compactification.     

Teichmüller rays and the Gardiner–Masur boundary of Teichmüller space

The aim of this paper is to develop the theory of a compactification of Teichmüller space given by F. Gardiner and H. Masur, which we call the Gardiner–Masur compactification of the Teichmüller space. We first develop the general theory of the Gardiner–Masur compactification. Secondly, we will investigate the asymptotic behaviors of Teichmüller geodesic rays under the Gardiner–Masur embedding. In particular, we will observe that the projective class of a rational measured foliation G can not be an accumulation point of every Teichmüller geodesic ray under the Gardiner–Masur embedding, when the support of G consists of at least two simple closed curves. Dedicated to Professor Yoichi Imayoshi on the occasion of his 60th birthday.     

Cusp closing in rank one symmetric spaces

We investigate conditions under which cusps of pinched negative curvature can be closed as manifolds or orbifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature. We show that all cusps of complex hyperbolic type can be closed in this way whereas cusps of quaternionic or Cayley hyperbolic type cannot be closed. For cusps of real hyperbolic type we derive necessary and sufficient closing conditions. In this context we prove that a noncompact finite volume quotient of a rank one symmetric space can be approximated in the Gromov Hausdorff topology by closed orbifolds with nonpositive curvature if and only if it is real or complex hyperbolic. Using cusp closing methods we obtain new examples of real analytic manifolds of nonpositive sectional curvature and rank one containing flats. By the same methods we get an explicit resolution of the singularities in the Baily–Borel resp.Siu–Yau compactification of finite volume quotients of the complex hyperbolic space. Oblatum 2-IX-1994 & 7-VIII-1995     

Combinatorics & Topology of Stratifications of The Space of Monic Polynomials With Real Coefficients

We study the stratification of the space of monic polynomials with real coefficients according to the number and multiplicities of real zeros. In the first part, for each of these strata we provide a purely combinatorial chain complex calculating (co)homology of its one-point compactification and describe the homotopy type by order complexes of a class of posets of compositions. In the second part, we determine the homotopy type of the one-point compactification of the space of monic polynomials of fixed degree which have only real roots (i.e., hyperbolic polynomials) and at least one root is of multiplicity k. More generally, we describe the homotopy type of the one-point compactification of strata in the boundary of the set of hyperbolic polynomials, that are defined via certain restrictions on root multiplicities, by order complexes of posets of compositions. In general, the methods are combinatorial and the topological problems are mostly reduced to the study of partially ordered sets.     

Tightness relative to some (co)reflections in topology

We address what might be termed the reverse reflection problem: given a monoreflection from a category A onto a subcategory B, when is a given object B ∈ B the reflection of a proper subobject? We start with a well known specific instance of this problem, namely the fact that a compact metric space is never the ?ech-Stone compactification of a proper subspace. We show that this holds also in the pointfree setting, i.e., that a compact metrizable locale is never the ?ech-Stone compactification of a proper sublocale. This is a stronger result than the classical one, but not because of an increase in scope; after all, assuming weak choice prin­ciples, every compact regular locale is the topology of a compact Hausdorff space. The increased strength derives from the conclusion, for in general a space has many more sublocales than subspaces. We then extend the analysis from metric locales to the broader class of perfectly normal locales, i.e., those whose frame of open sets consists entirely of cozero elements. We include a second proof of these results which is purely algebraic in character.

At the opposite extreme from these results, we show that an extremally disconnected locale is a compactification of each of its dense sublocales. Finally, we analyze the same phenomena, also in the pointfree setting, for the 0-dimensional compact reflec­tion and for the Lindelöf reflection.     

Symmetric spaces of higher rank do not admit differentiable compactifications

Any nonpositively curved symmetric space admits a topological compactification, namely the Hadamard compactification. For rank 1 spaces, this topological compactification can be endowed with a differentiable structure such that the action of the isometry group is differentiable. Moreover, the restriction of the action on the boundary leads to a flat model for some geometry (conformal, CR or quaternionic CR depending of the space). One can ask whether such a differentiable compactification exists for higher rank spaces, hopefully leading to some knew geometry to explore. In this paper we answer negatively.     

Cusp closing in rank one symmetric spaces

We investigate conditions under which cusps of pinched negative curvature can be closed as manifolds or orbifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature. We show that all cusps of complex hyperbolic type can be closed in this way whereas cusps of quaternionic or Cayley hyperbolic type cannot be closed. For cusps of real hyperbolic type we derive necessary and sufficient closing conditions. In this context we prove that a noncompact finite volume quotient of a rank one symmetric space can be approximated in the Gromov Hausdorff topology by closed orbifolds with nonpositive curvature if and only if it is real or complex hyperbolic. Using cusp closing methods we obtain new examples of real analytic manifolds of nonpositive sectional curvature and rank one containing flats. By the same methods we get an explicit resolution of the singularities in the Baily-Borel resp. Siu-Yau compactification of finite volume quotients of the complex hyperbolic space.Oblatum 2-IX-1994 & 7-VIII-1995     

A smooth compactification of the space of transfer functions with fixed McMillan degree

It is a classical result of Clark that the space of all proper or strictly properp ×m transfer functions of a fixed McMillan degreed has, in a natural way, the structure of a noncompact, smooth manifold. There is a natural embedding of this space into the set of allp × (m+p) autoregressive systems of degree at mostd. Extending the topology in a natural way we will show that this enlarged topological space is compact. Finally we describe a homogenization process which produces a smooth compactification.This author was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-9201263.