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The Hodge theory of stable curves

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Jerome William Hoffman

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1984; Volume 51, Number 308
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2310-1 (print); 978-1-4704-0721-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0308
MathSciNet review: 756175
MSC: Primary 14H15; Secondary 14C30, 14D05, 32G20

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. Mixed Hodge structures of a stable curve
  • 2. The topology of the versal deformation of a stable curve
  • 3. Limit Hodge structure of the versal deformation
  • 4. The Voronoi invariant
  • 5. Formulation of the main theorem
  • 6. The period matrix of 1-motive
  • 7. First approximation to the nilpotent orbit
  • 8. Second approximation to the nilpotent orbit