Lectures on Moduli of Curves
by D. Gieseker
Publisher: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 1982
ISBN/ASIN: 3540119531
Number of pages: 88
Description:
These lecture notes are based on some lectures given in 1980. The object of the lectures was to construct a projective moduli space for stable curves of genus greater than or equal two using Mumford's geometric invariant theory.
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