Abstract:We study moduli spaces of certain sextic curves with a singularity of multiplicity 3 from both perspectives of Deligne–Mostow theory and periods of K3 surfaces. In both ways we can describe the moduli spaces via arithmetic quotients of complex hyperbolic balls. We show that the two ball-quotient constructions can be unified in a geometric way. This is a joint work with Zhiwei Zheng
Abstract The degeneration of Hodge structures is related to how a smooth projective variety degenerate. And it provides a Hodge-theoretic perspective to compactify moduli spaces. In this talk, I will focus on a particular degeneration of cubic hypersurfaces and study the associated limiting mixed Hodge structure. It generalizes some results in Radu Laza’s and Brendan Hassett’s works on cubic ...