Mathematics – Algebraic Geometry
Scientific paper
2009-07-06
Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry
36 pages. The main change is the addition of an appendix by Najmuddin Fakhruddin, containing a complete answer for the questio
Scientific paper
In this paper we address questions of the following type. Let k be a base field and K/k be a field extension. Given a geometric object X over a field K (e.g. a smooth curve of genus g) what is the least transcendence degree of a field of definition of $X$ over the base field k? In other words, how many independent parameters are needed to define X? To study these questions we introduce a notion of essential dimension for an algebraic stack. In particular, we give a complete answer to the question above when the geometric objects X are smooth or stable curves, and, in the appendix by N. Fakhruddin, for principally polarized abelian varieties. This paper overlaps with our earlier preprint arXiv:math/0701903 . That preprint has splintered into several parts, which have since acquired a life of their own. In particular, see "Essential dimension, spinor groups, and quadratic forms", by the same authors, and "Some consequences of the Karpenko-Merkurjev theorem", by Meyer and Reichstein (arXiv:0811.2517).
Brosnan Patrick
Fakhruddin Najmuddin
Reichstein Zinovy
Vistoli Angelo
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