Stable n-pointed trees of projective lines
Stable n-pointed trees of projective lines
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稳定的 n 点投影线树
DOI:
10.1016/s1385-7258(88)80024-6
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发表时间:
1988
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M. Put
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作者:
L. Gerritzen;F. Herrlich;M. Put
Stablen-pointed trees arise in a natural way if one tries to find moduli for totally degenerate curves: LetCbe a totally degenerate stable curve of genusg ≥ 2over a field k. This means thatCis a connected projective curve of arithmetic genusgsatisfyingo(a) every irreducible component ofCis a rational curve over κ.(b) every singular point ofCis a κ-rational ordinary double point.(c) every nonsingular componentLofCmeetsC−Lin at least three points. It is always possible to find g singular pointsP1,..., PgonCsuch that the blow upCofCatP1,..., Pgis a connected projective curve with the following properties:o(i) every irreducible component ofCis isomorphic to Pk1(ii) the components ofCintersect in ordinary κ-rational double points(iii) the intersection graph ofCis a tree.The morphism φ : C → C is an isomorphism outside 2gregular pointsQ1, Q1′, Qg, Qg′and identifiesQiwithQj′. is uniquely determined by the g pairs of regular κ-rational points (Qi, Qi′). A curveCsatisfying (i)-(iii) together withnκ-rational regular points on it is called an-pointed tree of projective lines.Cis stable if on every component there are at least three points which are either singular or marked. The object of this paper is the classification of stablen-pointed trees. We prove in particular the existence of a fine moduli spaceBnof stablen-pointed trees. The discussion above shows that there is a surjective mapπB2g→ DgofB2gonto the closed subschemeDgof the coarse moduli schemeMgof stable curves of genusgcorresponding to the totally degenerate curves. By the universal property ofMg, π is a (finite) morphism. π factors throughB2g= B2gmod the action of the group of pair preserving permutations of 2gelements (a group of order 2gg, isomorphic to a wreath product ofSgand ℤ/2ℤThe induced morphismπ: B2g→ Dgis an isomorphism on the open subscheme of irreducible curves inDg, but in general there may be nonequivalent choices ofgsingular points on a totally degenerated curve for the above construction, so π has nontrivial fibres. In particular, π is not the quotient map for a group action onB2g. This leads to the idea of constructing a Teichmüller space for totally degenerate curves whose irreducible components are isomorphic toB2gand on which a discontinuous group acts such that the quotient is preciselyDg; π will then be the restriction of this quotient map to a single irreducible component. This theory will be developped in a subsequent paper.In this paper we only consider stablen-pointed trees and their moduli theory. In § 1 we introduce the abstract cross ratio of four points (not necessarily on the same projective line) and show that for a field κ the κ-valued points in the projective varietyBnof cross ratios are in 1 − 1 correspondence with the isomorphy classes of stablen-pointed trees of projective lines over κ. We also describe the structure of the subvarietiesB(T, ψ) of stablen-pointed trees with fixed combinatorial type.We generalize our notion in § 2 to stablen-pointed trees of projective lines over an arbitrary noetherian base schemeSand show how the cross ratios for the fibres fit together to morphisms onS. This section is closely related to [Kn], but it is more elementary since we deal with a special case.§ 3 contains the main result of the paper: the canonical projectionBn + 1→ Bnis the universal family of stablen-pointed trees. As a by-product of the proof we find thatBnis a smooth projective scheme of relative dimension 2n- 3 over ℤ. We also compareBnto the fibre productBn−1×Bn-2Bn − 1and investigate the singularities of the latter.In § 4 we prove that the Picard group ofBnis free of rank2n−1−(n+1)−n(n−3)/2.We also give a method …