Geometry Seminar

 

University of Tor Vergata, Department of Mathematics

17th of December 2024, 14:30-16:00, room D’Antoni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alternative Modular Compactifications of \(M_{g,n}\) via Cluster Algebras with applications to the MMP of \(\overline{M}_{g,n}\)

 

Davide Gori

Sapienza Università di Roma

 

 

 

 

We will discuss modular compactifications of \(M_{g,n}\) (the moduli space of smooth curves) and their birational geometry within the framework of the Hassett-Keel program. We classify the open substacks of canonically polarized curves with nodes, cusps, and tacnodes having a proper good moduli space. Using the \(S\)- and \(\Theta\)-completeness criteria, we transform the problem into a combinatorial one where compactifications and flips can be described using cluster algebra theory. This approach yields a complete description of the \(\mathbb{Q}\)-factorialization fan of \(\overline{M}_{g,n}(7/10)\) as a cluster fan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This talk is part of the activity of the MIUR Excellence Department Projects MathMod@TOV, and the PRIN 2022 Moduli Spaces and Birational Geometry and Prin PNRR 2022 Mathematical Primitives for Post Quantum Digital Signatures