Semipositivity theorems for moduli problems

Abstract

We prove some semipositivity theorems for singular varieties coming from graded polarizable admissible variations of mixed Hodge structure. As an application, we obtain that the moduli functor of stable varieties is semipositive in the sense of Kollár. This completes Kollár’s projectivity criterion for the moduli spaces of higher-dimensional stable varieties.

Authors

Osamu Fujino

Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan