The aim of this paper is to extend the expanded degeneration construction of Li and Wu to obtain good degenerations of Hilbert schemes of points on semistable families of surfaces, as well as to discuss alternative stability conditions and parallels to the GIT construction of Gulbrandsen, Halle and Hulek and logarithmic Hilbert scheme constructions of Maulik and Ranganathan. We construct a good degeneration of Hilbert schemes of points as a proper Deligne-Mumford stack and show that it provides a geometrically meaningful example of a construction arising from the work of Maulik and Ranganathan.

For a smooth affine algebraic group G over an algebraically closed field, we consider several two-variables generalizations of the affine Grassmannian , given by quotients of the double loop group $G(\!(x)\!)(\!(y)\!)$. We prove that they are representable by ind-schemes if G is solvable. Given a smooth surface X and a flag of subschemes of X, we provide a geometric interpretation of the two-variables Grassmannians, in terms of bundles and trivialisation data defined on appropriate loci in X, which depend on the flag.

The moduli space of bundle stable pairs $\overline {M}_C(2,\Lambda )$ on a smooth projective curve C, introduced by Thaddeus, is a smooth Fano variety of Picard rank two. Focusing on the genus two case, we show that its K-moduli space is isomorphic to a GIT moduli of lines in quartic del Pezzo threefolds. Additionally, we construct a natural forgetful morphism from the K-moduli of $\overline {M}_C(2,\Lambda )$ to that of the moduli spaces of stable vector bundles $\overline {N}_C(2,\Lambda )$. In particular, Thaddeus’ moduli spaces for genus two curves are all K-stable.

We present an explicit geometric invariant theory construction which produces both the minimal resolution of the type $D_4$ surface singularity, and also the orbifold resolution. Our construction is based on a Tannakian approach which is in principle applicable to larger groups.

We compute the integral Chow rings of $\overline {\mathcal {M}}_{1,n}$ for $n=3,4$. The alternative compactifications introduced by Smyth – and studied further by Lekili and Polishchuk – present each of these stacks as a sequence of weighted blow-ups and blow-downs from a weighted projective space. We compute all the integral Chow rings by repeated application of the blow-up formula.

We correct an error in the statement of [LVW24, Theorem 3.2] by adding the omitted hypothesis that the covers are arithmetically Gorenstein.

We define and study a generalization of the Beilinson–Drinfeld Grassmannian to the case where the curve is replaced by a smooth projective surface $X$, and the trivialization data are given on loci associated with a nonlinear flag of closed subschemes. We first establish some general formal gluing results for moduli of (almost) perfect complexes and torsors. We construct a simplicial object $\operatorname {\underline {\mathsf{Fl}}}_X$ of flags of closed subschemes of a smooth projective surface $X$, associated with the operation of taking union of flags. We prove that this simplicial object has the $2$-Segal property. For an affine complex algebraic group $G$, we define a derived, flag analogue $\mathcal{G}r_X$ of the Beilinson–Drinfeld Grassmannian of $G$-bundles on the surface $X$, and show that most of the properties of the Beilinson–Drinfeld Grassmannian for curves can be extended to our flag generalization: we prove a factorization formula, the existence of a canonical flat connection and define a chiral product on suitable sheaves on $\operatorname {\underline {\mathsf{Fl}}}_X$ and on $\mathcal{G}r_X$. We sketch the construction of actions of flags analogues of the loop group and of the positive loop group on $\mathcal{G}r_X$. To fixed ‘large’ flags on $X$, we associate ‘exotic’ derived structures on the stack of $G$-bundles on $X$.

We construct moduli spaces of objects in an abelian category satisfying some finiteness hypotheses. Our approach is based on the work of Artin and Zhang [Algebr. Represent. Theory 4 (2001), 305–394] and the intrinsic construction of moduli spaces for stacks developed by Alper, Halpern-Leistner and Heinloth [Invent. Math. 234 (2023), 949–1038].

Using the $\infty $-categorical enhancement of mixed Hodge modules constructed by the author in a previous paper, we explain how mixed Hodge modules canonically extend to algebraic stacks, together with all the six operations and weights. We also prove that Drew’s approach to motivic Hodge modules gives an $\infty $-category that embeds fully faithfully in mixed Hodge modules, and we identify the image as mixed Hodge modules of geometric origin.

Let $X$ be a very general Gushel–Mukai (GM) variety of dimension $n\geq 4$, and let $Y$ be a smooth hyperplane section. There are natural pull-back and push-forward functors between the semi-orthogonal components (known as the Kuznetsov components) of the derived categories of $X$ and $Y$. In this paper, we prove that the Bridgeland stability of objects is preserved by both pull-back and push-forward functors. We then explore various applications of this result, such as constructing an eight-dimensional smooth family of Lagrangian subvarieties for each moduli space of stable objects in the Kuznetsov component of a general GM fourfold and proving the projectivity of the moduli spaces of semistable objects of any class in the Kuznetsov component of a general GM threefold, as conjectured by Perry, Pertusi, and Zhao.

Boundary points on the moduli space of pointed curves corresponding to collisions of marked points have modular interpretations as degenerate curves. In this paper, we study degenerations of orbifold projective curves corresponding to collisions of stacky points from the point of view of noncommutative algebraic geometry.

We show that the cohomological Brauer groups of the moduli stacks of stable genus g curves over the integers and an algebraic closure of the rational numbers vanish for any $g\geq 2$. For the n marked version, we show the same vanishing result in the range $(g,n)=(1,n)$ with $1\leq n \leq 6$ and all $(g,n)$ with $g\geq 4.$ We also discuss several finiteness results on cohomological Brauer groups of proper and smooth Deligne-Mumford stacks over the integers.

We define kappa classes on moduli spaces of Kollár-Shepherd-Barron-Alexeev (KSBA)-stable varieties and pairs, generalizing the Miller–Morita–Mumford classes on moduli of curves, and computing them in some cases where the virtual fundamental class is known to exist, including Burniat and Campedelli surfaces. For Campedelli surfaces, an intermediate step is finding the Chow (same as cohomology) ring of the GIT quotient $(\mathbb {P}^2)^7//SL(3)$.

We study the rationality properties of the moduli space ${\mathcal{A}}_g$ of principally polarised abelian $g$-folds over $\mathbb{Q}$ and apply the results to arithmetic questions. In particular, we show that any principally polarised abelian 3-fold over ${\mathbb{F}}_p$ may be lifted to an abelian variety over $\mathbb{Q}$. This is a phenomenon of low dimension: assuming the Bombieri–Lang conjecture, we also show that this is not the case for abelian varieties of dimension at least 7. Concerning moduli spaces, we show that ${\mathcal{A}}_g$ is unirational over $\mathbb{Q}$ for $g\le 5$ and stably rational for $g=3$. This also allows us to make unconditional one of the results of Masser and Zannier about the existence of abelian varieties over $\mathbb{Q}$ that are not isogenous to Jacobians.

We prove the existence of a power structure over the Grothendieck ring of geometric dg categories. We show that a conjecture by Galkin and Shinder (proved recently by Bergh, Gorchinskiy, Larsen and Lunts) relating the motivic and categorical zeta functions of varieties can be reformulated as a compatibility between the motivic and categorical power structures. Using our power structure, we show that the categorical zeta function of a geometric dg category can be expressed as a power with exponent the category itself. We give applications of our results for the generating series associated with Hilbert schemes of points, categorical Adams operations and series with exponent a linear algebraic group.

Let ${\mathcal {R}} \subset \mathbb {P}^1_{\mathbb {C}}$ be a finite subset of markings. Let G be an almost simple simply-connected algebraic group over $\mathbb {C}$. Let $K_G$ denote the compact real form of G. Suppose for each lasso l around the marked point, a conjugacy class $C_l$ in $K_G$ is prescribed. The aim of this paper is to give verifiable criteria for the existence of an irreducible homomorphism of $\pi _{1}(\mathbb P^1_{\mathbb {C}} \,{\backslash}\, {\mathcal {R}})$ into $K_G$ such that the image of l lies in $C_l$.

For $2 \leq d \leq 5$, we show that the class of the Hurwitz space of smooth degree $d$, genus $g$ covers of $\mathbb {P}^1$ stabilizes in the Grothendieck ring of stacks as $g \to \infty$, and we give a formula for the limit. We also verify this stabilization when one imposes ramification conditions on the covers, and obtain a particularly simple answer for this limit when one restricts to simply branched covers.

We systematically study the moduli stacks of Higgs bundles, spectral curves, and Norm maps on Deligne–Mumford curves. As an application, under some mild conditions, we prove the Strominger–Yau–Zaslow duality for the moduli spaces of Higgs bundles over a hyperbolic stacky curve.

We consider K-theoretic Gromov-Witten theory of root constructions. We calculate some genus $0$ K-theoretic Gromov-Witten invariants of a root gerbe. We also obtain a K-theoretic relative/orbifold correspondence in genus $0$.

In the article [CEGS20b], we introduced various moduli stacks of two-dimensional tamely potentially Barsotti–Tate representations of the absolute Galois group of a p-adic local field, as well as related moduli stacks of Breuil–Kisin modules with descent data. We study the irreducible components of these stacks, establishing, in particular, that the components of the former are naturally indexed by certain Serre weights.