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Towards Mori’s program for the moduli space of stable maps
- American Journal of Mathematics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 133, Number 5, October 2011
- pp. 1389-1419
- 10.1353/ajm.2011.0040
- Article
- Additional Information
We introduce and compute the class of a number of effective divisors on the moduli space of stable maps
$\overline{{\scr M}}_{0,0}({\Bbb P}^{r}, d)$, which, for small $d$, provide a good understanding of the
extremal rays and the stable base locus decomposition for the effective cone. We also discuss various
birational models that arise in Mori's program, including the Hilbert scheme, the Chow variety, the
space of $k$-stable maps, the space of branchcurves and the space of semi-stable sheaves.