The homotopy type of the Baily-Borel and allied compactifications

Jiaming Chen; Eduard Looijenga

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The homotopy type of the Baily-Borel and allied compactifications

Jiaming Chen·Eduard Looijenga

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A number of compactifications familiar in complex-analytic geometry, in particular, the Baily-Borel compactification and its toroidal variants, as well as the Deligne-Mumford compactifications, can be covered by open subsets whose nonempty intersections are Eilenberg-MacLane spaces. We exploit this fact to describe the (rational) homotopy type of these spaces and the natural maps between them in terms of the simplicial sets attached to certain categories. We thus generalize an old result of Charney-Lee on the Baily-Borel compactification of A_g and recover (and rephrase) a more recent one of Ebert-Giansiracusa on the Deligne-Mumford compactifications. We also describe an extension of the period map for Riemann surfaces (going from the Deligne-Mumford compactification to the Baily-Borel compactification of the moduli space of principally polarized varieties) in these terms.

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Jiaming Chen, Eduard Looijenga. 2015-11-05. The homotopy type of the Baily-Borel and allied compactifications. https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05599

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