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Kodaira fibrations and beyond: methods for moduli theory

Fabrizio Catanese
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Kodaira fibred surfaces are a remarkable example of projective classifying spaces, and there are still many intriguing open questions concerning them, especially the slope question. The topological characterization of Kodaira fibrations is emblematic of the use of topological methods in the study of moduli spaces of surfaces and higher dimensional complex algebraic varieties, and their compactifications. The paper contains some new results but is mostly a survey paper, dealing with fibrations, questions on monodromy and factorizations in the mapping class group, old and new results on Variation of Hodge Structures, especially a recent answer given (in joint work with Dettweiler) to a long standing question posed by Fujita. In the landscape of our tour, Galois coverings, deformations and rigid manifolds (new results obtained with Ingrid Bauer) projective classifying spaces, the action of the absolute Galois group on moduli spaces, stand also in the forefront. These questions lead to interesting algebraic surfaces, for instance the BCDH surfaces, hypersurfaces in Bagnera-de Franchis varieties, Inoue-type surfaces.

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Fabrizio Catanese. 2016-11-21. Kodaira fibrations and beyond: methods for moduli theory. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06617

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