Abstract
We show that the moduli space of rational elliptic surfaces admitting a section is locally a complex hyperbolic variety of dimension 8. We compare its Satake-Baily-Borel compactification with a compactification obtained by means of geometric invariant theory, considered by Miranda.
Information
Published: 1 January 2002
First available in Project Euclid: 27 January 2019
zbMATH: 1063.14044
MathSciNet: MR1971517
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2969/aspm/03610185
Subjects:
Primary:
14J15
,
14J27
,
32N10
Keywords:
ball quotient
,
moduli
,
rational elliptic fibration
Rights: Copyright © 2002 Mathematical Society of Japan