The local geometry of the stack of $A_r$-stable curves

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Main Authors: Gori, Davide, Modin, Ludvig, Pernice, Michele
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Published: 2026
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author Gori, Davide
Modin, Ludvig
Pernice, Michele
author_facet Gori, Davide
Modin, Ludvig
Pernice, Michele
contents In this paper we study the local geometry of the stack of pointed $A_r$-stable curves. In particular, we analyze the deformation theory of $A_r$-stable curves and their automorphism groups in order to study the combinatorics of families of curves over $[\mathbb{A}^1/\mathbb{G}_m]$, and use this to classify all closed points of the stack of $A_r$-stable curves. As a byproduct, we also classify all open substacks of the moduli stack of degree $2$ cyclic covers of $\mathbb{P}^1$ that admit a separated good moduli space. This is the first in a series of three papers aimed at studying obstructions for the existence of good moduli spaces for stacks of curves with $A$-type singularities, and using these to find an open substack of the stack of $A_r$-stable curves that admits a proper non-projective good moduli space when $r=5$.
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spellingShingle The local geometry of the stack of $A_r$-stable curves
Gori, Davide
Modin, Ludvig
Pernice, Michele
Algebraic Geometry
14B07, 14D23, 14H10
In this paper we study the local geometry of the stack of pointed $A_r$-stable curves. In particular, we analyze the deformation theory of $A_r$-stable curves and their automorphism groups in order to study the combinatorics of families of curves over $[\mathbb{A}^1/\mathbb{G}_m]$, and use this to classify all closed points of the stack of $A_r$-stable curves. As a byproduct, we also classify all open substacks of the moduli stack of degree $2$ cyclic covers of $\mathbb{P}^1$ that admit a separated good moduli space. This is the first in a series of three papers aimed at studying obstructions for the existence of good moduli spaces for stacks of curves with $A$-type singularities, and using these to find an open substack of the stack of $A_r$-stable curves that admits a proper non-projective good moduli space when $r=5$.
title The local geometry of the stack of $A_r$-stable curves
topic Algebraic Geometry
14B07, 14D23, 14H10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29853