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Compactifying the space of stable maps
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by Dan Abramovich and Angelo Vistoli
J. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (2002), 27-75
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-01-00380-0
Published electronically: July 31, 2001
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Abstract:

In this paper we study a notion of twisted stable map, from a curve to a tame Deligne-Mumford stack, which generalizes the well-known notion of stable map to a projective variety.
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Bibliographic Information
  • Dan Abramovich
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
  • MR Author ID: 309312
  • ORCID: 0000-0003-0719-0989
  • Email: abrmovic@math.bu.edu
  • Angelo Vistoli
  • Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna, Piazza di Porta San Donato 5, 40127 Bologna, Italy
  • MR Author ID: 194370
  • ORCID: 0000-0003-3857-3755
  • Email: vistoli@dm.unibo.it
  • Received by editor(s): May 11, 2000
  • Published electronically: July 31, 2001
  • Additional Notes: The first author’s research was partially supported by National Science Foundation grant DMS-9700520 and by an Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship
    The second author’s research was partially supported by the University of Bologna, funds for selected research topics
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  • Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (2002), 27-75
  • MSC (2000): Primary 14H10, 14D20
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-01-00380-0
  • MathSciNet review: 1862797