| Résume | Moduli spaces of stable maps in higher genus have many components of different dimensions meeting each other in complicated ways, and the closure of the smooth locus (the so called main component) does not have a modular interpretation. Constructing modular desingularisations of the main component is strictly related to understanding degenerations of canonical divisors and Gorenstein singularities. I will explain how logarithmic and tropical techniques can be used to solve the problem in genus one and two and say a few words on how the methods used can be adapted to construct modular binational models of pointed curves in low genus. This is based on a joint work with L.Battistella. |
