Alternate Compactifications of Moduli Spaces of Curves

By Maksym Fedorchuk, D. Smyth. 2010

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We give an informal survey, emphasizing examples and open problems, of two interconnected research programs in moduli of curves: the systematic classification of modular compactifications of $M_{g,n}$, and the study of Mori chamber decompositions of $\M_{g,n}$.

Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Computational Mechanics, Geometry and Topology

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