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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Apr 22, 2025

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 225


Trevor Jones

Cornell

Title

Projectivity of the Moduli Space of Equidimensional Branch varieties

Abstract

A branchvariety of a projective k-scheme X is a geometrically reduced scheme Y equipped with a finite map to X. Alexeev and Knutson showed the existence of a proper moduli space of branchvarieties with fixed Hilbert polynomial and degree sequence, but the projectivity of this space remained an open question. In this talk, we will discuss positivity results for some line bundles related to the determinant line bundle on the moduli space of equidimensional branchvarieties. As a consequence, we establish that this moduli space is projective.

Algebraic Geometry

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