Affine compactification conjecture for degenerating enhanced projective families

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Let TT be an affine variety carrying a universal full family of enhanced projective varieties. Let f:Y→Sf:Y\to S be a family of projective varieties with fixed prescribed topological data, let Δ⊂S\Delta\subset S be its discriminant variety, and allow the family to be neither enhanced nor smooth over Δ\Delta. Over the complement of the discriminant, the morphism

Y\f−1(Δ)→S\ΔY\backslash f^{-1}(\Delta)\to S\backslash\Delta

is the underlying morphism of an enhanced family and therefore determines a map S\Δ→TS\backslash\Delta\to T. The affine compactification conjecture asserts that there is an affine variety T~⊃T\tilde T\supset T of the same dimension as TT such that this map extends to

S→T~.S\to\tilde T.

The conjecture concerns the existence of T~\tilde T with this extension property for every such family. It would provide a parameter space accommodating degenerations of projective varieties and extend the quasi-modular form framework beyond smooth enhanced families.

References

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Hossein Movasati, “Quasi-modular forms attached to Hodge structures”, arXiv:1009.5038 (2012).

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