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AUTHOR
Eckart Viehweg
Special Families of Curves, of Abelian Varieties, and of Certain Minimal Manifolds over Curves
This survey article discusses some results on the structure of families f:V-->U of n-dimensional manifolds over quasi-projective curves U, with semistable reduction over a compactification Y of U. We improve the Arakelov inequality for the direct images of powers of the dualizing sheaf. For families of Abelian varieties we recall the characterization of Shimura curves by Arakelov equalities. For families of curves we recall the characterization of Teichmueller curves in terms of the existence of certain sub variation of Hodge structures. We sketch the proof that the moduli scheme of curves of genus g>1 can not contain compact Shimura curves, and that it only contains a non-compact Shimura c…
Numerical bounds for semi-stable families of curves or of certain higher-dimensional manifolds
Given an open subset U U of a projective curve Y Y and a smooth family f : V → U f:V\to U of curves, with semi-stable reduction over Y Y , we show that for a subvariation V \mathbb {V} of Hodge structures of R 1 f ∗ C V R^1f_*\mathbb {C}_V with rank ( V ) > 2 \textrm {rank} (\mathbb {V})>2 the Arakelov inequality must be strict. For families of n n -folds we prove a similar result under the assumption that the ( n , 0 ) (n,0) component of the Higgs bundle of V \mathbb {V} defines a birational map.
Complex multiplication, Griffiths-Yukawa couplings, and rigidity for families of hypersurfaces
Let M(d,n) be the moduli stack of hypersurfaces of degree d > n in the complex projective n-space, and let M(d,n;1) be the sub-stack, parameterizing hypersurfaces obtained as a d fold cyclic covering of the projective n-1 space, ramified over a hypersurface of degree d. Iterating this construction, one obtains M(d,n;r). We show that M(d,n;1) is rigid in M(d,n), although the Griffiths-Yukawa coupling degenerates for d<2n. On the other hand, for all d>n the sub-stack M(d,n;2) deforms. We calculate the exact length of the Griffiths-Yukawa coupling over M(d,n;r), and we construct a 4-dimensional family of quintic hypersurfaces, and a dense set of points in the base, where the fibres ha…