Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

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Morrison has constructed a geometric relationship between K3 surfaces with large Picard number and abelian surfaces. In particular, this establishes that the period spaces of certain families of lattice polarized K3 surfaces (which are closely related to the moduli spaces of lattice polarized K3 surfaces) and lattice polarized abelian surfaces are identical. Therefore, we may study the moduli spaces of such K3 surfaces via the period spaces of abelian surfaces. In this thesis, we will answer the following question: from the moduli space of abelian surfaces with endomorphism structure (either a Shimura curve or a Hilbert modular surface), there is a natural map into the moduli space of abelian surfaces, and hence into the period space of abelian surfaces. What sort of relationship exists between the moduli spaces of abelian surfaces with endomorphism structure and the moduli space of lattice polarized K3 surfaces? We will show that in many cases, the endomorphism ring of an abelian surface is just a subring of the Clifford algebra associated to the N\'eron-Severi lattice of the abelian surface. Furthermore, we establish a precise relationship between the moduli spaces of rank 18 polarized K3 surfaces and Hilbert modular surfaces, and between the moduli spaces of rank 19 polarized K3 surfaces and Shimura curves. Finally, we will calculate the moduli space of E_8^2 + <4>-polarized K3 surfaces as a family of elliptic K3 surfaces in Weierstrass form and use this new family to find families of rank 18 and 19 polarized K3 surfaces which are related to abelian surfaces with real multiplication or quaternionic multipliction via the Shioda-Inose construction. / Thesis (Master, Mathematics & Statistics) -- Queen's University, 2011-08-12 14:38:04.131

The topic of this thesis is the study of moduli spaces of zero-dimensional geometricobjects. The thesis consists of three articles each focusing on a particular moduli space.The first article concerns the Hilbert scheme Hilb(X). This moduli space parametrizesclosed subschemes of a fixed ambient scheme X. It has been known implicitly for sometime that the Hilbert scheme does not behave well when the scheme X is not separated.The article shows that the separation hypothesis is necessary in the sense thatthe component Hilb1(X) of Hilb(X) parametrizing subschemes of dimension zero andlength 1 does not exist if X is not separated.Article number two deals with the Chow scheme Chow 0,n(X) parametrizing zerodimensionaleffective cycles of length n on the given scheme X. There is a relatedconstruction, the Symmetric product Symn(X), defined as the quotient of the n-foldproduct X ×. . .×X of X by the natural action of the symmetric group Sn permutingthe factors. There is a canonical map Symn(X) " Chow0,n(X) that, set-theoretically,maps a tuple (x1, . . . , xn) to the cycle!nk=1 xk. In many cases this canonical map is anisomorphism. We explore in this paper some examples where it is not an isomorphism.This will also lead to some results concerning the question whether the symmetricproduct commutes with base change.The third article is related to the Fulton-MacPherson compactification of the configurationspace of points. Here we begin by considering the configuration space F(X, n)parametrizing n-tuples of distinct ordered points on a smooth scheme X. The schemeF(X, n) has a compactification X[n] which is obtained from the product Xn by a sequenceof blowups. Thus X[n] is itself not defined as a moduli space, but the pointson the boundary of X[n] may be interpreted as geometric objects called stable degenerations.It is then natural to ask if X[n] can be defined as a moduli space of stabledegenerations instead of as a blowup. In the third article we begin work towards ananswer to this question in the case where X = P2. We define a very general modulistack Xpv2 parametrizing projective schemes whose structure sheaf has vanishing secondcohomology. We then use Artin’s criteria to show that this stack is algebraic. Onemay define a stack SDX,n of stable degenerations of X and the goal is then to provealgebraicity of the stack SDX,n by using Xpv2. / QC 20100729

The moduli space of stable quotients, introduced by Marian, Oprea, and Pandharipande, provides a nonsingular compactification of the moduli space of degree d maps from smooth genus 1 curves into projective space ℙⁿ. This is done by allowing the domain curve to have nodal singularities and by admitting certain rational maps. The rational maps are introduced in the following way: A map to projective space can be defined by a quotient bundle of the trivial bundle on the domain curve; in the compactification, the quotient bundle is replaced by a sheaf which may not be locally free. The boundary is filtered by the degree of the torsion subsheaf of the quotient. Yijun Shao has defined a similar compactification of the moduli space of degree d maps from ℙ¹ into a Grassmannian. A blow-up process is carried out on the compactification in order to produce a boundary which is a simple normal crossings divisor: The closed subschemes in the filtration of the boundary are blown up in order of decreasing torsion. In this thesis, we carry out an analogous blow-up process on the moduli space of stable quotients. We show that the end result is a nonsingular compactification which has as its boundary a simple normal crossings divisor.

In this thesis, we study the structure, deformations and the moduli spaces of complex projective surfaces admitting genus two fibrations over elliptic curves. We observe that, a surface admitting a smooth fibration as above is elliptic and we employ results on the moduli of polarized elliptic surfaces, to construct moduli spaces of these smooth fibrations. In the case of nonsmooth fibrations, we relate the moduli spaces to the Hurwitz schemes H(1,X(d),n) of morphisms of degree n from elliptic curves to the modular curve X(d), d&amp / #8804 / 3. Ultimately, we show that the moduli spaces, considered, are fiber spaces over the affine line A&sup1 / with fibers determined by the components of H (1,X(d),n).

On construit de nouvelles connexions quantiques intégrables dans fibrés vectoriels au-dessus d'espaces de modules de surfaces de Riemann et de leurs généralisations sauvages, en utilisant deux approches différentes. Premièrement, on utilise la quantification par déformation pour construire de nouvelles connexions intégrables à partir d'Hamiltoniennes d'isomonodromie irrégulières, dans l'esprit de Reshetikhin de la dérivation de la connexion de Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov à partir des Hamiltoniennes de Schlesinger. Deuxièmement, on construit une version complexe de la connexion de Hitchin pour la quantification géométrique de l'espace de modules de Hitchin sur une surface de genre un, par rapport au groupe SL(2,C) et à des polarisations Kähleriennes, en complémentant l'approche par polarisations réelles de Witten. Finalement, on utilise la transformée de Bargmann pour dériver une formule pour la connexion de Hitchin-Witten dans le fibré vectoriel des sections holomorphes, et pour transformer l'action de Hitchin en une transformée sur l'espace de Segal--Bargmann, basée sur les états cohérents. / We construct new flat quantum connections on vector bundles over moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and their wild generalisations, using two different approaches. Firstly, we use deformation quantisation to construct new flat connections from irregular isomonodromy Hamiltonians, in the spirit of Reshetikhin's derivation of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov connection from the Schlesinger Hamiltonians. Secondly, we construct a complex version of the Hitchin connection for the geometric quantisation of the Hitchin moduli space over a surface of genus one, with respect to the group SL(2,C) and to Kähler polarisations, complementing Witten's real polarisation approach. Finally, we use the Bargmann transform to derive a formula for the connection of Hitchin-Witten on the vector bundle of holomorphic sections, and to turn Hitchin's action into a transform on the Segal--Bargmann space, which relies on coherent states.