Searcharxiv⌕ Search

arXiv subjects

Klaus Hulek

Publications and source records attributed to Klaus Hulek.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
arXiv2026

Degenerations of generalized Kummer varieties

We present a method to construct explicit degenerations of higher-dimensional generalized Kummer varieties. We start with a simple degeneration $f: \mathcal Y \to C$ of abelian surfaces. Then $ \mathcal{Y} \setminus \mathcal{Y}_0$ is an abelian scheme over $C \setminus 0$ and we can form the relative generalized Kummer variety $K^{n-1}_{\circ} = \mathrm{Kum}^{n-1}(\mathcal{Y} \setminus \mathcal{Y}_0) \to C \setminus 0$. This is naturally a closed subscheme of the relative Hilbert scheme $\mathrm{Hilb}^{n}(\mathcal{Y} \setminus \mathcal{Y}_0) \to C \setminus 0$. In previous work (joint with Gulbrandsen) we had constructed a compactification $I^n_{\mathcal{Y}/C}$ over $C$ of the latter scheme. The closure $K^{n-1}_{\mathcal{Y}/C}$ of $K^{n-1}_{\circ}$ inside $I^n_{\mathcal{Y}/C}$ yields a canonical way to degenerate the family of generalized Kummer varieties, and is the degeneration we propose. This paper contains a detailed study of the geometry of the scheme $K^{n-1}_{\mathcal{Y}/C}$ and its natural stratification. For $n=2$ we obtain a projective Kulikov model of Kummer surfaces, whereas already for $n=3$ new phenomena occur. We study in detail the dual complex of $K^{2}_{\mathcal{Y}/C}$ and show that this is PL-homeomorphic to the standard $2$-simplex.

math.AG↗
arXiv2025

Remarks on two problems by Hassett

One of the ultimate goals of the Hassett-Keel program is the determination of the log canonical models of the moduli spaces of pointed rational curves $\overline{M}_{0,n}$. In this paper, we study log canonical models of $\overline{M}_{0,5}$ with \textit{asymmetric} boundary divisors. Our results generalize previous work by Alexeev-Swinarski, Fedorchuk-Smyth, Kiem-Moon and Simpson for the first non-trivial case, namely $n=5$. We prove that all moduli spaces of weighted pointed rational curves $\overline{M}_{0,A}$ arise as log canonical models of $\overline{M}_{0,5}$ for suitable choices of boundary coefficients, thereby also recovering a theorem of Fedorchuk and Moon. In addition, we relate these moduli spaces to Deligne-Mostow ball quotients. We further study log canonical models of the moduli spaces $\overline{M}_{0,n\cdot (1/k)}$ with symmetric weight, which differ from $\overline{M}_{0,n}$. The case $n=5$ can be viewed as an explicit guiding example in a very general program and the paper can thus also serve as an expository introduction.

math.AG↗
arXiv2025

Combinatorial K3 surfaces and the Mori fan of the Dolgachev--Nikulin--Voisin family in degree 2

We introduce the notion of a combinatorial K3 surface. Those form a certain class of type III semistable K3 surfaces and are completely determined by combinatorial data called curve structures. Emphasis is put on degree $2$ combinatorial K3 surfaces, but the approach can be used to study higher degree as well. We describe elementary modifications both in terms of the curve structures as well as on the Picard groups. Together with a description of the nef cone in terms of curve structures, this provides an approach to explicitly computing the Mori fan of the Dolgachev--Nikulin--Voisin family in degree $2$.

math.AG↗
arXiv2025

The Universe of Deligne-Mostow Varieties

Deligne and Mostow investigated period maps on the configuration spaces $M_{0,n}$ of $n$ ordered points on $\mathbb{P}^1$. The images of these maps are open subsets of certain ball quotients. Moreover, they extend to isomorphisms between GIT-quotients and the Baily-Borel compactifications. Building on a theorem of Gallardo, Kerr and Schaffler, the period maps lift to isomorphisms between two natural compactifications, namely the Kirwan blow-up and the toroidal compactification. In this paper, we look at the more general situation where we also allow unordered or partially ordered $n$-tuples. Our main result is an easily verifiable criterion that, in this broader setting, determines when the Deligne-Mostow period maps still lift to isomorphisms between the Kirwan blow-up and the toroidal compactification. We further investigate a partial ordering among Deligne-Mostow varieties, which reduces this problem to considering minimal or maximal Deligne-Mostow varieties with respect to this partial ordering. As a byproduct, we prove that, in general, Kirwan's resolution pair is not a log canonical log minimal model and not log $K$-equivalent to the unique toroidal compactification.

math.AG↗
arXiv2024

Compactifications of the Eisenstein ancestral Deligne-Mostow variety

All arithmetic non-compact ball quotients by Deligne-Mostow's unitary monodromy group arise as sub-ball quotients of either of two spaces called ancestral cases, corresponding to Gaussian or Eisenstein Hermitian forms respectively. In a previous paper, we investigated the compactifications of the Gaussian Deligne-Mostow variety. Here we work on the remaining case, namely the ring of Eisenstein integers. This variety is related to the moduli space of unordered 12 points on $\mathbb{P}^1$. In particular, we show that Kirwan's partial resolution of the moduli space is not a semi-toroidal compactification and Deligne-Mostow's period map does not lift to the unique toroidal compactification. We give two interpretations of these phenomena in terms of the log minimal model program and automorphic forms. As an application, we prove that the above two compactifications are not (stacky) derived equivalent, as the $DK$-conjecture predicts. Furthermore, we construct an automorphic form on the moduli space of non-hyperelliptic curves of genus 4, which is isogenous to the Eisenstein Deligne-Mostow variety, giving another intrinsic proof, independent of lattice embeddings, of a result by Casalaina-Martin, Jensen and Laza.

math.AG↗
arXiv2024

The extension of zbMATH Open by arXiv preprints

zbMATH Open has started a new feature -- relevant preprints posted at arXiv will also be displayed in the database. In this article we introduce this new feature and the underlying editorial policy. We also describe some of the technical issues involved and discuss the challenges this presents for future developments.

cs.DL↗
arXiv2023

Moduli of polarized Enriques surfaces -- computational aspects

Moduli spaces of (polarized) Enriques surfaces can be described as open subsets of modular varieties of orthogonal type. It was shown by Gritsenko and Hulek that there are, up to isomorphism, only finitely many different moduli spaces of polarized Enriques surfaces. Here we investigate the possible arithmetic groups and show that there are exactly $87$ such groups up to conjugacy. We also show that all moduli spaces are dominated by a moduli space of polarized Enriques surfaces of degree $1240$. Ciliberto, Dedieu, Galati, and Knutsen have also investigated moduli spaces of polarized Enriques surfaces in detail. We discuss how our enumeration relates to theirs. We further compute the Tits building of the groups in question. Our computation is based on groups and indefinite quadratic forms and the algorithms used are explained.

math.AG↗
arXiv2023

Non-isomorphic smooth compactifications of the moduli space of cubic surfaces

The moduli space of complex cubic surfaces has three different, but isomorphic, compact realizations: as a GIT quotient, as a Baily--Borel compactification of a ball quotient, and as a compactified $K$-moduli space. From all three perspectives, there is a unique boundary point corresponding to non-stable surfaces. From the GIT point of view, to deal with this point, it is natural to consider the Kirwan blowup, while from the ball quotient point of view it is natural to consider the toroidal compactification. Both these spaces have the same cohomology and and it is therefore natural to ask whether they are isomorphic. Here we show that this is in fact not the case. Indeed, we show the more refined statement that both spaces are equivalent in the Grothendieck ring, but not $K$-equivalent. Along the way, we establish a number of results and techniques for dealing with singularities and canonical classes of Kirwan blowups and toroidal compactifications of ball quotients.

math.AG↗
arXiv2022

Revisiting the moduli space of 8 points on $\mathbb{P}^1$

The moduli space of $8$ points on $\mathbb{P}^1$, a so-called ancestral Deligne-Mostow space, is, by work of Kond\={o}, also a moduli space of K3 surfaces. We prove that the Deligne-Mostow isomorphism does not lift to a morphism between the Kirwan blow-up of the GIT quotient and the unique toroidal compactification of the corresponding ball quotient. Moreover, we show that these spaces are not $K$-equivalent, even though they are natural blow-ups at the unique cusps and have the same cohomology. This is analogous to the work of Casalaina-Martin-Grushevsky-Hulek-Laza on the moduli space of cubic surfaces. The moduli spaces of ordinary stable maps, that is, the Fulton-MacPherson compactification of the configuration space of points on $\mathbb{P}^1$, play an important role in the proof. We further relate our computations to new developments in the minimal model program and recent work of Odaka. We briefly discuss other cases of moduli space of points on $\mathbb{P}^1$ where a similar behaviour can be observed, hinting at a more general, but not yet fully understood phenomenon.

math.AG↗
arXiv2022

On the cone of effective surfaces on $\overline{\mathcal A}_3$

We determine five extremal effective rays of the four-dimensional cone of effective surfaces on the toroidal compactification $\overline{\mathcal A}_3$ of the moduli space ${\mathcal A}_3$ of complex principally polarized abelian threefolds, and we conjecture that the cone of effective surfaces is generated by these surfaces. As the surfaces we define can be defined in any genus $g\ge 3$, we further conjecture that they generate the cone of effective surfaces on the perfect cone toroidal compactification of ${\mathcal A}_g$ for any $g\ge 3$.

math.AG↗
arXiv2021

Relative VGIT and an application to degenerations of Hilbert schemes

We generalize the classical semi-continuity theorem for GIT (semi)stable loci under variations of linearizations to a relative situation of an equivariant projective morphism from X to an affine base S. As an application to moduli problems, we consider degenerations of Hilbert schemes, and give a conceptual interpretation of the (semi)stable loci of the degeneration families constructed by Gulbrandsen-Halle-Hulek.

math.AG↗
arXiv2021

Moduli of elliptic $K3$ surfaces: monodromy and Shimada root lattice strata

In this paper we investigate two stratifications of the moduli space of elliptically fibred K3 surfaces. The first comes from Shimada's classification of connected components of elliptically fibred K3 surfaces and is closely related to the root lattice of the fibration. The second is the monodromy stratification defined by Bogomolov, Petrov and Tschinkel. The main result of the paper is a classification of all positive-dimensional ambi-typical strata, that is strata which are both Shimada root strata and monodromy strata. We further discuss the connection with moduli spaces of lattice-polarised K3 surfaces. The paper contains an appendix by M. Kirschmer providing computational results on the 1-dimensional ambi-typical strata.

math.AG↗
arXiv2020

On the GHKS compactification of the moduli space of K3 surfaces of degree two

We investigate a toroidal compactification of the moduli space of K3 surfaces of degree $2$ originating from the program formulated by Gross-Hacking-Keel-Siebert. This construction uses Dolgachev's formulation of mirror symmetry and the birational geometry of the mirror family. Our main result in an analysis of the toric fan. For this we use the methods developed by two of us in a previous paper.

math.AG↗
arXiv2020

The geometry of degenerations of Hilbert schemes of points

Given a strict simple degeneration $f \colon X\to C$ the first three authors previously constructed a degeneration $I^n_{X/C} \to C$ of the relative degree $n$ Hilbert scheme of $0$-dimensional subschemes. In this paper we investigate the geometry of this degeneration, in particular when the fibre dimension of $f$ is at most $2$. In this case we show that $I^n_{X/C} \to C$ is a dlt model. This is even a good minimal dlt model if $f \colon X \to C$ has this property. We compute the dual complex of the central fibre $(I^n_{X/C})_0$ and relate this to the essential skeleton of the generic fibre. For a type II degeneration of $K3$ surfaces we show that the stack ${\mathcal I}^n_{X/C} \to C$ carries a nowhere degenerate relative logarithmic $2$-form. Finally we discuss the relationship of our degeneration with the constructions of Nagai.

math.AG↗
arXiv2020

Cohomology of the moduli space of cubic threefolds and its smooth models

We compute and compare the (intersection) cohomology of various natural geometric compactifications of the moduli space of cubic threefolds: the GIT compactification and its Kirwan blowup, as well as the Baily-Borel and toroidal compactifications of the ball quotient model, due to Allcock-Carlson-Toledo. Our starting point is Kirwan's method. We then follow by investigating the behavior of the cohomology under the birational maps relating the various models, using the decomposition theorem in different ways, and via a detailed study of the boundary of the ball quotient model. As an easy illustration of our methods, the simpler case of the moduli of cubic surfaces is discussed in an appendix.

math.AG↗
arXiv2020

Complete moduli of cubic threefolds and their intermediate Jacobians

The intermediate Jacobian map, which associates to a smooth cubic threefold its intermediate Jacobian, does not extend to the GIT compactification of the space of cubic threefolds, not even as a map to the Satake compactification of the moduli space of principally polarized abelian fivefolds. A much better "wonderful" compactification of the space of cubic threefolds was constructed by the first and fourth authors --- it has a modular interpretation, and divisorial normal crossing boundary. We prove that the intermediate Jacobian map extends to a morphism from the wonderful compactification to the second Voronoi toroidal compactification of the moduli of principally polarized abelian fivefolds --- the first and fourth author previously showed that it extends to the Satake compactification. Since the second Voronoi compactification has a modular interpretation, our extended intermediate Jacobian map encodes all of the geometric information about the degenerations of intermediate Jacobians, and allows for the study of the geometry of cubic threefolds via degeneration techniques. As one application we give a complete classification of all degenerations of intermediate Jacobians of cubic threefolds of torus rank 1 and 2.

math.AG↗