2010/07/13 by Edidin, Dan, Fulghesu, Damiano
#14D23 #14H10 #14H37 #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1007.2130
We consider the stack of stable curves of genus g with a given dual graph and we give an explicit desingularization of its closure in the moduli stack of stable curves. We study in particular the one-dimensional substack of curves with at least 3g-4 nodes.