Download or read book Compactifying Moduli Spaces written by Paul Hacking and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focusses on a large class of objects in moduli theory and provides different perspectives from which compactifications of moduli spaces may be investigated. Three contributions give an insight on particular aspects of moduli problems. In the first of them, various ways to construct and compactify moduli spaces are presented. In the second, some questions on the boundary of moduli spaces of surfaces are addressed. Finally, the theory of stable quotients is explained, which yields meaningful compactifications of moduli spaces of maps. Both advanced graduate students and researchers in algebraic geometry will find this book a valuable read.