On the projectivity of compactified universal Jacobians
We classify the compactified universal Jacobian spaces that are projective over the moduli stack of stable pointed curves.
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We classify the compactified universal Jacobian spaces that are projective over the moduli stack of stable pointed curves.
We study the intrinsic notion of $\alpha$-stability for curves arising from the Beyond GIT approach to moduli spaces. We show that it recovers Deligne-Mumford stability for $9/11<\alpha\le1$, and more generally that the $\alpha$-semistable locus is contained in the known modular compactification of the Hassett-Keel proram for $\alpha>2/3-\varepsilon$. As applications, we also obtain new $\alpha$-stability results for smooth curves. Our approach combines slope inequalities with a degeneration theorem showing that every Gorenstein curve with a non-nodal singularity can be isotrivially degenerated to a Gorenstein curve with a $\mathbb G_m$-action.
This is the third paper in a series, following [FPVa] and [FPVb]. We classify all modular compactifications of the universal Jacobian over $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$, both as stacks and as their relative good moduli spaces. Our main result gives a combinatorial parametrization of compactified universal Jacobian stacks by $V$-functions on a stability domain $\mathbb{D}_{g,n}$ of half-vine types (two-components topological types with a chosen side); under this correspondence, fine compactifications are exactly the general $V$-functions. We single out the classical compactified universal Jacobians, namely those induced by numerical polarizations (relative $\mathbb{R}$-line bundles on the universal curve $\overline{\mathcal{C}}_{g,n}/\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$), recovering the constructions of Kass-Pagani and Melo in the fine case, and we prove that their good moduli spaces are locally projective over $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$. We determine when two compactified universal Jacobians are isomorphic over $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ and describe a resolution of the universal family via a compactified Jacobian over $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n+1}$. Finally, we analyse the poset $\Sigma_{g,n}$ of compactified universal Jacobians, an extension of the poset of regions of the hyperplane arrangement of classical stability conditions $\mathcal{A}_{g,n}$ studied in Kass-Pagani. We prove that for $n=0$ all compactified universal Jacobians are those constructed by Caporaso. We then give an explicit description of the submaximal elements of $\Sigma_{g,n}$ for all $n$, generalizing the stability walls in the classical stability space $\mathcal{A}_{g,n}$ from Kass-Pagani's work.
This is the first paper of a series of three. Here we give an abstract definition of the relative compactified Jacobian of a family of reduced curves. We prove that, under some mild assumptions on the family of curves, the fibres of the relative Jacobian are schemes (and not just algebraic spaces). We define V-stability conditions, and use them to construct relative compactified Jacobians. This extends the classical methods to produce modular compactifications of the Jacobian. To conclude, we show that, in the case when the curves have at worst planar singularities, the compactified Jacobians constructed from V-stability conditions have the same good properties of the classical ones.
We study the geometry of the moduli stack of torsion-free sheaves on ribbons. We introduce a stratification of the stack by the complete type of the sheaves, and we investigate the geometric properties of the strata and their closure relation, and which strata intersect the (semi)stable locus. Then we describe the irreducible components of the stack, by revealing an interesting trichotomy between Fano, Calabi-Yau and canonically polarized cases. Finally, we compute the tangent space of the moduli stack at a given sheaf.
We introduce and study a new class of compactified Jacobians for nodal curves, that we call compactified Jacobians of vine type, or simply V-compactified Jacobians. This class is strictly larger than the class of classical compactified Jacobians, as constructed by Oda-Seshadri, Simpson, Caporaso and Esteves. We characterize V-compactified Jacobians as the compactified Jacobians that can arise as limits of Jacobians of smooth curves under a one-parameter smoothing of the nodal curve, extending previous works on fine compactified Jacobians by Pagani-Tommasi and Viviani to the case of all compactified Jacobians.
Given a connected reductive algebraic group G, we investigate the Picard group of the moduli stack of principal G-bundles over an arbitrary family of smooth curves.
We introduce a new class of fine compactified Jacobians for nodal curves, that we call fine compactified Jacobians of vine type, or simply fine V-compactified Jacobians. This class is strictly larger than the class of fine classical compactified Jacobians, as constructed by Oda-Seshadri, Simpson, Caporaso and Esteves. Inspired by a recent preprint of Pagani-Tommasi, we characterize fine V-compactified Jacobians as the fine compactified Jacobians that can arise as limits of Jacobians of smooth curves under a one-parameter smoothing of the nodal curve or in its semiuniversal deformation space. Furthermore, fine V-compactified Jacobians are exactly the ones that gives a compactification of the N\'eron model of the Jacobian of the generic fiber of a one-parameter regular smoothing of the nodal curve. Finally, we give a combinatorial characterization of fine V-compactified Jacobians in terms of their poset of orbits for the action of the generalized Jacobian.
The aim of the present paper is to study the (abstract) Picard group and the Picard group scheme of the moduli stack of stable pointed curves over an arbitrary scheme. As a byproduct, we compute the Picard groups of the moduli stack of stable or smooth pointed curves over a field of characteristic different from two.
We prove some higher dimensional generalizations of the slope inequality originally due to G. Xiao, and to M. Cornalba and J. Harris. We give applications to families of KSB-stable and K-stable pairs, as well as to the study of the ample cone of the moduli space of KSB-stable varieties. Our proofs relies on the study of the Harder-Narasimhan filtration, and some generalizations of Castelnuovo's and Noether's inequalities.
For any smooth connected linear algebraic group G over an algebraically closed field k, we describe the Picard group of the universal moduli stack of principal G-bundles over pointed smooth k-projective curves.
In this paper, which is a sequel of arXiv:2002.07494, we investigate, for any reductive group $G$ over an algebraically closed field $k$, the Picard group of the universal moduli stack $\mathrm{Bun}_{G,g,n}$ of $G$-bundles over $n$-pointed smooth projective curves of genus $g$. In particular: we give new functorial presentations of the Picard group of $\mathrm{Bun}_{G,g,n}$; we study the restriction homomorphism onto the Picard group of the moduli stack of principal $G$-bundles over a fixed smooth curve; we determine the Picard group of the rigidification of $\mathrm{Bun}_{G,g,n}$ by the center of $G$ as well as the image of the obstruction homomorphism of the associated gerbe. As a consequence, we compute the divisor class group of the moduli space of semistable $G$-bundles over $n$-pointed smooth projective curves of genus $g$.
In this article we provide a stack-theoretic framework to study the universal tropical Jacobian over the moduli space of tropical curves. We develop two approaches to the process of tropicalization of the universal compactified Jacobian over the moduli space of curves -- one from a logarithmic and the other from a non-Archimedean analytic point of view. The central result from both points of view is that the tropicalization of the universal compactified Jacobian is the universal tropical Jacobian and that the tropicalization maps in each of the two contexts are compatible with the tautological morphisms. In a sequel we will use the techniques developed here to provide explicit polyhedral models for the logarithmic Picard variety.
The aim of this paper is to study all the natural first steps of the minimal model program for the moduli space of stable pointed curves. We prove that they admit a modular interpretation and we study their geometric properties. As a particular case, we recover the first few Hassett-Keel log canonical models. As a by-product, we produce many birational morphisms from the moduli space of stable pointed curves to alternative modular projective compactifications of the moduli space of pointed curves.
The aim of this paper is to study some modular contractions of the moduli space of stable pointed curves. These new moduli spaces, which are modular compactifications of the moduli space of smooth pointed curves, are related with the minimal model program for the moduli space of stable pointed curves and have been introduced in a previous work of the authors. We interpret them as log canonical models of adjoints divisors and we then describe the Shokurov decomposition of a region of boundary divisors on the moduli space of stable pointed curves.
Supersymmetric curves are the analogue of Riemann surfaces in super geometry. We establish some foundational results about complex Deligne-Mumford superstacks, and we then prove that the moduli superstack of supersymmetric curves is a smooth complex Deligne-Mumford superstack. We then show that the superstack of supersymmetric curves admits a coarse complex superspace, which, in this case, is just an ordinary complex space. In the second part of this paper we discuss the period map. We remark that the period domain is the moduli space of ordinary abelian varieties endowed with a symmetric theta divisor, and we then show that the differential of the period map is surjective. In other words, we prove that any first order deformation of a classical Jacobian is the Jacobian of a supersymmetric curve.
In this paper and in its sequel [BKLV], we investigate the cone ${\rm Pseff}_n(C_d)$ of pseudoeffective $n$-cycles in the symmetric product $C_d$ of a smooth curve $C$. In the present paper, we study the convex-geometric properties of the cone generated by the $n$-dimensional diagonal cycles, which we call the $n$-dimensional diagonal cone. We prove that the $n$-dimensional diagonal cone is a perfect face of ${\rm Pseff}_n(C_d)$ along which ${\rm Pseff}_n(C_d)$ is locally finitely generated.
To every reduced (projective) curve X with planar singularities one can associate many fine compactified Jacobians, depending on the choice of a polarization on X, which are birational (possibly non-isomorphic) Calabi-Yau projective varieties with locally complete intersection singularities. We define a Poincare' sheaf on the product of any two (possibly equal) fine compactified Jacobians of X and show that the integral transform with kernel the Poincare' sheaf is an equivalence of their derived categories. In particular, any two fine compactified Jacobians are derived equivalent. When applied to the same fine compactified Jacobian, one gets a Fourier-Mukai autoequivalence, which generalizes the classical result of Mukai for Jacobians of smooth curves (or more generally abelian varieties) and of Arinkin for compactified Jacobians of integral curves, thus providing further evidence for the classical limit of the geometric Langlands conjecture (as formulated by R. Donagi and T. Pantev). As a corollary of our main result, we prove an autoduality result for fine compactified Jacobians: there is a natural equivariant open embedding of the connected component of the scheme parametrizing rank-1 torsion-free sheaves on X into the connected component of the algebraic space parametrizing rank-1 torsion-free sheaves on a given fine compactified Jacobian of X.