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Projective structures on moduli spaces of compact complex hypersurfaces

Author(s): Sergey Merkulov; Henrik Pedersen
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 407-416.
MSC (1991): Primary 32G10, 32L25, 53A15, 53B05, 53B10
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Abstract: It is shown that moduli spaces of complete families of compact complex hypersurfaces in complex manifolds often come equipped canonically with projective structures satisfying some natural integrability conditions.


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Additional Information:

Sergey Merkulov
Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
Address at time of publication: Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Glasgow, 15 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QW, United Kingdom

Henrik Pedersen
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Odense University, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03408-4
PII: S 0002-9939(97)03408-4
Received by editor(s): April 12, 1994
Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 13, 1995
Communicated by: Christopher Croke
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society


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