Moduli Spaces

Moduli of curves, sheaves, and stable maps.


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Moduli Spaces. Moduli of curves, sheaves, and stable maps.

Foundations and canonical references

The standard treatments of moduli spaces approach the subject from complementary angles. Harris, Moduli of Curves (1998) is the anchor reference for the subject and lays out the core definitions, theorems, and worked examples that practitioners return to. Mumford, Geometric Invariant Theory (1994) gives a parallel, more proof-oriented exposition of the same material and is widely used as a graduate text.

Open methodological questions for moduli spaces include sharpening the bridges between foundational theory and computational practice, extending classical results to broader or more structured settings, and integrating the techniques surveyed above with adjacent mathematical disciplines. The references listed in this page are the entry points that current work builds on.

Prerequisites

Sources

  • textbook · primary · 1998
    Moduli of Curves
    harris-1998, morrison-1998
  • textbook · primary · 1994
    Geometric Invariant Theory
    mumford-1994, fogarty-1994, kirwan-1994

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