Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-59). / We define a moduli functor parametrizing finite maps from a projective (locally) Cohen-Macaulay curve to a fixed projective space. The definition of the functor includes a number of technical conditions, but the most important is that the map is almost everywhere an isomorphism onto its image. The motivation for this definition comes from trying to interpolate between the Hilbert scheme and the Kontsevich mapping space. The main result of this thesis is that our functor is represented by a proper algebraic space. As an application we obtain interesting compactifications of the spaces of smooth curves in projective space. We illustrate this in the case of rational quartics, where the resulting space appears easier than the Hilbert scheme. / by Morten Oskar Hønsen. / Ph.D.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/28826 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Hønsen, Morten Oskar, 1973- |
| Contributors | Aise Johan de Jong., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics. |
| Publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 59 p., 2324962 bytes, 2330137 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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