Singularities of the moduli space of level curves

  • Alessandro Chiodo

    Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
  • Gavril Farkas

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Abstract

We describe the singular locus of the compactification of the moduli space of curves of genus paired with an -torsion point in their Jacobian. Generalising previous work for , we also describe the sublocus of noncanonical singularities for any positive integer . For ≥ 4 and = 3, 4, 6, this allows us to provide a lifting result on pluricanonical forms playing an essential role in the computation of the Kodaira dimension of : for those values of , every pluricanonical form on the smooth locus of the moduli space extends to a desingularisation of the compactified moduli space.

Cite this article

Alessandro Chiodo, Gavril Farkas, Singularities of the moduli space of level curves. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 19 (2017), no. 3, pp. 603–658

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/677