Remarks on the geometry of moduli spaces

Liu, Kefeng

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03046-8

Remarks on the geometry of moduli spaces
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Abstract:

By using Yau’s Schwarz lemma and the Quillen determinant line bundles, several results about fibered algebraic surfaces and the moduli spaces of curves are improved and reproved.

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