Smoothing of a reducible $I$-surface – Sönke Rollenske (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

Venue

Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna.

Abstract

The moduli space of stable surfaces is a modular compactification of the Gieseker moduli space of (canonical models of) surfaces of general type but has components consisting solely of non-smoothable surfaces. I will construct a smoothing of a particular reducible surface $X$ with $K^2=1$ and $p_g=2$, and thus show that the family of such surfaces is indeed contained in the closure of the smooth locus. $X$ is the union of a singular $K3$ surface and a singular Enriques surface, glued along an elliptic curve.

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