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On complete curves in moduli space II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Gabino González Díez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
William J. Harvey
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, King's College London

Extract

Introduction In a companion to this article [4], we gave a construction which furnishes complete curves, inside the moduli variety g of non-singular genus g curves, for each g ≥ 4; it was also shown there that the technique will not work in genus 3.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1991

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