Workshop
Moduli of hypersurfaces in weighted projective space
- Dominic Bunnett (Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
Abstract
The moduli space of smooth hypersurfaces in projective space was constructed by Mumford in the 60’s using his newly developed classical (a.k.a. reductive) Geometric Invariant Theory. I wish to generalise this construction to hypersurfaces in weighted projective space (or more generally orbifold toric varieties). The automorphism group of a toric variety is in general non-reductive and I will use new results in non-reductive GIT, developed by F. Kirwan et al., to construct a moduli space of quasismooth hypersurfaces. I will give geometric characterisations of notions of stability arising from non-reductive GIT.