Local Moduli and Singularities / Edition 1

by Olav Arnfinn Laudal, Gerhard Pfister

Overview

This research monograph sets out to study the notion of a local moduli suite of algebraic objects like e.g. schemes, singularities or Lie algebras and provides a framework for this. The basic idea is to work with the action of the kernel of the Kodaira-Spencer map, on the base space of a versal family. The main results are the existence, in a general context, of a local moduli suite in the category of algebraic spaces, and the proof that, generically, this moduli suite is the quotient of a canonical filtration of the base space of the versal family by the action of the Kodaira-Spencer kernel. Applied to the special case of quasihomogenous hypersurfaces, these ideas provide the framework for the proof of the existence of a coarse moduli scheme for plane curve singularities with fixed semigroup and minimal Tjurina number . An example shows that for arbitrary the corresponding moduli space is not, in general, a scheme. The book addresses mathematicians working on problems of moduli, in algebraic or in complex analytic geometry. It assumes a working knowledge of deformation theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540192350
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	06/24/1988
Series:	Lecture Notes in Mathematics , #1310
Edition description:	1988
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

The prorepresenting substratum of the formal moduli.- Automorphisms of the formal moduli.- The kodaira-spencer map and its kernel.- Applications to isolated hypersurface singularities.- Plane curve singularities with k*-action.- The generic component of the local moduli suite.- The moduli suite of x 1 5 +x 2 11 .