{Omega}-Admissible Theory

Arakelov and Faltings developed an admissible theory on regulararithmetic surfaces by using Arakelov canonical volume formson the associated Riemann surfaces. Such volume forms are inducedfrom the associated Kähler forms of the flat metric onthe corresponding Jacobians. So this admissible theory is inthe nature of Euclidean geometry, and hence is not quite compatiblewith the moduli theory of Riemann surfaces. In this paper, wedevelop a general admissible theory for arithmetic surfaces(associated with stable curves) with respect to any volume form.In particular, we have a theory of arithmetic surfaces in thenature of hyperbolic geometry by using hyperbolic volume formson the associated Riemann surfaces. Our theory is proved tobe useful as well: we have a very natural Weil function on themoduli space of Riemann surfaces, and show that in order tosolve the arithmetic Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yau inequality, it issufficient to give an estimation for Petersson norms of somemodular forms. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 11G30,11G99, 14H15, 53C07, 58A99.