Moduli of Curves and Abelian Varieties: The Dutch Intercity Seminar on Moduli

ISBN-13: 9783322901743 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 200 str.

Carel Faber; Eduard Looijenga

Opis

The present volume, with contributions of R. Dijkgraaf, C. Faber, G. van der Geer, R. Rain, E. Looijenga, and F. Oort, originates from the Dutch Intercity Seminar on Moduli (year 1995-96). Some of the articles here were discussed, in preliminary form, in the seminar; others are completely new. Two introductory papers, on moduli of abelian varieties and on moduli of curves, accompany the articles. Topics include a stratification of a moduli space of abelian varieties in positive characteristic, and the calculation of the classes of the strata, tautological classes for moduli of abelian varieties as well as for moduli of curves, correspondences between moduli spaces of curves, locally symmetric families of curves and jaco bians, and the role of symmetric product spaces in quantum field theory, string theory and matrix theory. This Intercity Seminar is part of the long term project "Algebraic curves and Riemann surfaces: geometry, arithmetic and applications," sponsored hy the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), that has been running since 1994. Its ancestry can be traced back to joint activities in the seventies (if not earlier), which as of 1980 had evolved into active biweekly research seminars. These have been a focal point of Dutch algebraic geometry and singularity theory since. We are grateful to NWO for its support for the project. C.F. thanks the Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn, for support during the final stages of the preparation of this volume."

Spis treści

- Gerard van der Geer / Frans Oort: Moduli of Abelian Varieties: A Short Introduction and Survey. - Carel Faber/ Eduard Looijenga: Remarks on Moduli of Curves. - Robbert Dijkgraaf: Fields, Strings, Matrices and Symmetric Products. - Carel Faber: A Conjectural Description of the Tautological Ring of the Moduli Space of Curves. - Gerard van der Geer: Cycles on the Moduli Space of Abelian Varieties. - Richard Hain: Locally Symmetric Families of Curves and Jacobians. - Eduard Looijenga: Correspondences between Moduli Spaces of Curves. - Frans Oort: A Stratification of a Moduli Space of Polarized Abelian Varieties in Positive Characteristic.

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Eduard Looijenga ist Mathematiker an der Universität Utrecht, Niederlande.

Dr. Carel Faber ist jetzt am Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn tätig.

Blurb

The Dutch Intercity Seminar on Moduli, which dates back to the early
eighties, was an initiative of G. van der Geer, F. Oort and C. Peters.
Through the years it became a focal point of Dutch mathematics and
it gained some fame, also outside Holland, as an active biweekly
research seminar. The tradition continues up to today.
The present volume, with contributions of R. Dijkgraaf, C. Faber,
G. van der Geer, R. Hain, E. Looijenga, and F. Oort, originates
from the seminar held in 1995--96. Some of the articles here were
discussed, in preliminary form, in the seminar; others are completely
new. Two introductory papers, on moduli of abelian varieties and
on moduli of curves, accompany the articles.
Topics include a stratification of a moduli space of abelian varieties
in positive characteristic, and the calculation of the classes of the
strata, tautological classes for moduli of abelian varieties as well as
for moduli of curves, correspondences between moduli spaces of curves,
locally symmetric families of curves and jacobians, and the role of
symmetric product spaces in quantum field theory, string theory and
matrix theory.