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250137 VO Moduli of n points on the projective line (2021W)
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Sprache: Englisch
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The course is currently scheduled (online via Zoom + recordings available afterwards) on
Tuesdays from 5 - 6,30 pm,starting on October 5. As it seems that some interested people have conflicts at that time, we may change the day and/or the time, e.g. to Tuesday morning or early afternoon, or Monday afternoon. Please send an e-mail to herwig.hauser@univie.ac.at if you are interested in following the course but prefer a change of schedule.- Dienstag 05.10. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
- Dienstag 12.10. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
- Dienstag 19.10. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
- Dienstag 09.11. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
- Dienstag 16.11. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
- Dienstag 23.11. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
- Dienstag 30.11. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
- Dienstag 07.12. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
- Dienstag 14.12. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
- Dienstag 11.01. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
- Dienstag 18.01. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
- Dienstag 25.01. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
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The course will presuppose little prerequisites. Basic courses (Bachelor level) in algebra, geometry, topology and graph theory suffice.
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Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:21
zero.Contents: We start by discussing the concept of (coarse and fine) moduli spaces and universal families, providing also the philosophical background thereof: why is it natural to study such questions, and why the given axiomatic framework is the correct one? Once we have become familiar with these foundations (seeing many examples on the way), we will concentrate on n points in P1 and the action of PGL2 on them by Möbius transformations. This is part of classical projective geometry and very beautiful. As long as the n points are pairwise distinct, things are easy, and a moduli space is easily constructed. Things become tricky as the points start to move and thus become closer to each other until they collide and coalesce. What are the limiting configurations of the points one has to expect in this variation? This question has a long history –Grothendieck proposed a convincing answer: n-pointed stable curves. Then, Deligne, Mumford and Knudsen built a fascinating and multi-faceted theory for them, their famous compactification of M–(0,n).We will take at the beginning a different approach by proposing an alternative version of limit. Namely, we embed the space of (PGL2-orbits of) n distinct points into a large projective space and then take limits therein via the Zariski-closure. That’s a one page construction of a compact space Xn. It opens the door to the theory of phylogenetic trees: they are certain finite graphs with leaves and inner vertices as a tree in a forest. Their combinatorial structure will become the guiding principle to design many proofs for our moduli spaces. Working with phylogenetic trees can be a very pleasing occupation: we will draw, glue, cut and compose these trees and thus get surprising constructions and insights.At that point a miracle happens: When considering the above Zariski-closure Xn and the associated phylogenetic trees, the stable curves of Grothendieck, Deligne, Mumford, Knudsen pop up on their own. We don’t even have to define them – they are just
there. So the circle closes up, as we then get an isomorphism from Xn to the compactification of M-(0,n) . In this way our journey is now able to reprove many of the classical results in an easy going and appealing manner.