A limit linear series moduli scheme
Abstract
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We develop a new, more functorial construction for the basic theory of limit linear series, which provides a compactification of the Eisenbud-Harris theory, and shows promise for generalization to higher-dimensional varieties and higher-rank vector bundles. We also give a result on lifting linear series from characteristic p to characteristic 0. In an appendix, in order to obtain the necessary dimensional lower bounds on our limit linear series scheme we develop a theory of "linked Grassmannians;" these are schemes parametrizing sub-bundles of a sequence of vector bundles which map into one another under fixed maps of the ambient bundles.
30 pages. Contents of chapter II of PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
30 pages. Contents of chapter II of PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004