The integral Chow ring of the stack of 1-pointed hyperelliptic curves

点超椭圆曲线堆栈的积分Chow环

The Integral Chow Ring of the Stack of Pointed Hyperelliptic Curves

本文研究了参数化n个标记光滑超椭圆曲线的堆栈H_{g,n}的积分Chow环，对n=1,2完全计算，n≥3时至多计算二阶类的加法阶数，并在n=2g+3时获得部分结果，特别当g=2时，结果适用于M_{2,n}的Chow环。

The rationality of the moduli space of one-pointed ineffective spin hyperelliptic curves via an almost del Pezzo threefold

Using the geometry of an almost del Pezzo threefold, we show that the moduli space of genus $g$ one-pointed ineffective spin hyperelliptic curves is rational for every $g\geq 2$.

The rationality of the moduli space of two-pointed ineffective spin hyperelliptic curves

By the geometry of the 3-fold quadric we show that the coarse moduli space of genus g ineffective spin hyperelliptic curves with two marked points is a rational variety for every $g \geq 2$.

超椭圆 Prym 对的模栈的整 Chow 环 I

The Integral Chow Rings of the Moduli Stacks of Hyperelliptic Prym Pairs I

本文是计算 Prym 对模栈整 Chow 环系列的第一篇，计算了由单对 Weierstrass 点生成，以及曲线亏格为奇数时至多 $(g-1)/2$ 对生成的 Prym 对的 Chow 环。

超椭圆Prym对的模栈的整Chow环 II

The Integral Chow Rings of the Moduli Stacks of Hyperelliptic Prym Pairs II

本文作为系列论文第二篇，计算了奇亏格下超椭圆Prym对模栈特定分支的整Chow环，还得到了奇亏格超椭圆Spin曲线模栈各不可约分支的相关结果，并给出了一个有独立价值的中间计算结果。

超椭圆 Prym 对模栈的积分 Chow 环 III

The Integral Chow Rings of the Moduli Stacks of Hyperelliptic Prym Pairs III

本文通过商栈描述和刚性化映射的根 gerbe 判别，完成了超椭圆 Prym 对模栈所有不可约分支积分 Chow 环的计算，仅剩一个奇亏格特殊情形未决。

超椭圆轨迹上的万有 Picard 层的 Chow 环

The Chow ring of the universal Picard stack over the hyperelliptic locus

本文确定了超椭圆轨迹上万有 Picard 层的有理 Chow 环及其生成元与关系，并计算了整 Picard 群，证明了其 Brauer 类阶由 $d-g$ 奇偶性决定。

Rational Picard group of moduli of pointed hyperelliptic curves

We determine the rational divisor class group of the moduli spaces of smooth pointed hyperelliptic curves and of their Deligne-Mumford compactification, over the field of complex numbers.

The pointed harmonic volumes of hyperelliptic curves with Weierstrass base points

We give a explicit computation of the pointed harmonic volumes of hyperelliptic curves with Weierstrass base points, which are paraphrased into a combinatorial formula.

Indecomposable Higher Chow cycles on Jacobians

We construct some natural cycles with trivial regulator in the higher Chow groups of Jacobians. For hyperelliptic curves we use a criterion due to J. Lewis to prove that the cycles we construct are indecomposable, and then use a specialization argument to prove indecomposability for more general curves. Please note that math.AG/9909062 has become an obsolete version of some of the results in the present paper.

Equivariant counts of points of the moduli spaces of pointed hyperelliptic curves

We consider the moduli space $\Hh_{g,n}$ of $n$-pointed smooth hyperelliptic curves of genus $g$. In order to get cohomological information we wish to make $\s_n$-equivariant counts of the numbers of points defined over finite fields of this moduli space. We find recurrence relations in the genus that these numbers fulfill. Thus, if we can make $\s_n$-equivariant counts of $\Hh_{g,n}$ for low genus, then we can do this for every genus. Information about curves of genus 0 and 1 is then found to be sufficient to compute the answers for $\Hh_{g,n}$ for all $g$ and for $n \leq 7$. These results ar…

On the sections of universal hyperelliptic curves

In this paper, we will give an algebraic proof for determining the sections for the universal pointed hyperelliptic curves, when $g\geq 3$ and the image of the $\ell$-adic cyclotomic character $G_k\to \Z^\times$ is infinite. Furthermore, we will study the nonabelian phenomena associated to the universal hyperelliptic curves. For example, we will show that the section conjecture holds for the universal hyperelliptic curve without marked points and the unipotent analogue of the conjecture holds for the pointed case. This work is an extension of Hain's original work to the hyperelliptic case.

Pointed trees of projective spaces

We introduce a smooth projective variety $T_{d,n}$ which compactifies the space of configurations of $n$ distinct points on affine $d$-space modulo translation and homothety. The points in the boundary correspond to $n$-pointed stable rooted trees of $d$-dimensional projective spaces, which for $d = 1$, are $(n+1)$-pointed stable rational curves. In particular, $T_{1,n}$ is isomorphic to $\bar{M}_{0,n+1}$, the moduli space of such curves. The variety $T_{d,n}$ shares many properties with $\bar{M}_{0,n}$. For example, as we prove, the boundary is a smooth normal crossings divisor whose componen…

Chow groups of the moduli spaces of weighted pointed stable curves of genus zero

The moduli space $\bar{M}_A$ of weighted pointed stable curves of genus zero is stratified according to the degeneration types of such curves. We show that the homology groups of the moduli space $\bar{M}_A$ are generated by the strata of $\bar{M}_A$ and give all additive relations between them. We also observe that the Chow groups $A_i \bar{M}_A$ and the homology groups $H_{2i} \bar{M}_A$ are isomorphic. This generalizes Kontsevich-Manin's and Losev-Manin's theorems to arbitrary weight data $A$.

On the $S_n$-equivariant Euler characteristic of moduli spaces of hyperelliptic curves

The generating function for $S_n$-equivariant Euler characteristics of moduli spaces of pointed hyperelliptic curves for any genus g>1 is calculated. This answer generalizes the known ones for genera 2 and 3 and answers obtained by J. Bergstrom for any genus and n<8 points.

Hirzebruch 曲面上超椭圆曲线模空间的稳定上同调

Stable cohomology of moduli spaces of hyperelliptic curves on Hirzebruch surfaces

本文计算了 Hirzebruch 曲面上固定亏格超椭圆曲线模空间的稳定上同调，并用带标记点的非嵌入模空间进行描述。

A presentation for the Chow ring of \bar{M}_{0,2}(P^1,2)

We give a presentation for the Chow ring of the moduli space of degree two stable maps from two-pointed rational curves to P^1. Also, integrals of of all degree four monomials in the hyperplane pullbacks and boundary divisors of this ring are computed using equivariant intersection theory. Finally, the presentation is used to give a new computation of the (previously known) values of the genus zero, degree two, two-pointed gravitational correlators of P^1. This article is a sequel to math.AG/0501322, although the only information truly needed from that article is the Poincare polynomial of the…

Hyperelliptic $A_r$-stable curves (and their moduli stack)

This paper is the second in a series of four papers aiming to describe the (almost integral) Chow ring of $\Mbar_3$, the moduli stack of stable curves of genus $3$. In this paper, we introduce the moduli stack $\Htilde_g^r$ of hyperelliptic $A_r$-stable curves and generalize the theory of hyperelliptic stable curves to hyperelliptic $A_r$-stable curves. In particular, we prove that $\Htilde_g^r$ is a smooth algebraic stacks which can be described using cyclic covers of twisted curves of genus $0$ and it embeds in $\Mtilde_g^r$ (the moduli stack of $A_r$-stable curves) as the closure of the mod…

Counting hyperelliptic curves that admit a Koblitz model

Let k be a finite field of odd characteristic. We find a closed formula for the number of k-isomorphism classes of pointed, and non-pointed, hyperelliptic curves of genus g over k, admitting a Koblitz model. These numbers are expressed as a polynomial in the cardinality q of k, with integer coefficients (for pointed curves) and rational coefficients (for non-pointed curves). The coefficients depend on g and the set of divisors of q-1 and q+1. These formulas show that the number of hyperelliptic curves of genus g suitable (in principle) of cryptographic applications is asymptotically (1-e^{-1})…

构型空间的乘性Chow-Künneth分解与同调分裂

Multiplicative Chow-Künneth decomposition and homology splitting of configuration spaces

本文构造了光滑固有簇点构型空间上同调的分裂，证明了超椭圆Torelli群作用平凡及Leray谱序列立即退化，并据此对$M_{2,n}$和$H_{g,n}$的上同调进行了详细计算。

$A_r$-stable curves and the Chow ring of $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_3$

In this work, we introduce the moduli stack $\widetilde{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}^r$ of $n$-pointed, $A_r$-stable curves of genus $g$ and use it to compute the Chow ring of $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_3$. As a byproduct, we also compute the Chow ring of $\widetilde{\mathcal{M}}_3^7$. All the Chow rings are assumed to be with coefficients in $\mathbb{Z}[1/6]$.

Equations for Chow and Hilbert Quotients

We give explicit equations for the Chow and Hilbert quotients of a projective scheme X by the action of an algebraic torus T in an auxiliary toric variety. As a consequence we provide GIT descriptions of these canonical quotients, and obtain other GIT quotients of X by variation of GIT quotient. We apply these results to find equations for the moduli space \bar{M}_{0,n} of stable genus zero n-pointed curves as a subvariety of a smooth toric variety defined via tropical methods.

二阶向量丛在双曲曲线上的 universal moduli 堆叠中的循环

Cycles in the universal moduli stack of bundles of rank two over genus two curves

本文提出并证明了双曲曲线上的 universal moduli 堆叠的 Chow 环猜想，确定了生成元和关系，并计算了 genus 二曲线的 universal Jacobians 乘积的 Chow 环。

Degeneration of the modified diagonal cycle

In this note, we revisit the modified diagonal cycle of Gross and Schoen. We look at degenerations of this cycle, induced by a degeneration of the curve C, and explain how the specialization map with respect to the central fiber produces a higher Chow cycle. When C is non-hyperelliptic of genus three, and degenerates to a nodal curve, the degeneration of the cycle corresponds to an indecomposable higher Chow cycle on a curve of genus two.

修正对角闭链的周群消没结果

Vanishing results in Chow groups for the modified diagonal cycles

本文给出了曲线上三重积周群中修正对角闭链消没的一个充分条件，并构造了无穷多个满足该条件的非超椭圆曲线实例。

Birational Geometry of moduli spaces of pointed curves

This is the authors doctoral thesis written at the Humboldt-University Berlin. It contains material from the three separate papers: "On the Kodaira dimension of the moduli space of nodal curves", "On quotients of $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ by certain subgroups of $S_n$" and "The moduli space of hyperelliptic curves with marked points".

Cohomology of moduli spaces of curves of genus three via point counts

In this article we consider the moduli space of smooth $n$-pointed non-hyperelliptic curves of genus 3. In the pursuit of cohomological information about this space, we make $\mathbb{S}_n$-equivariant counts of its numbers of points defined over finite fields for $n \leq 7$. Combining this with results on the moduli spaces of smooth pointed curves of genus 0, 1 and 2, and the moduli space of smooth hyperelliptic curves of genus 3, we can determine the $\mathbb{S}_n$-equivariant Galois and Hodge structure of the ($\ell$-adic respectively Betti) cohomology of the moduli space of stable curves of…

A presentation for the Chow ring A^*(\bar{M}_{0,2}(P^1,2))

The purpose of this dissertation is to study the intersection theory of the moduli spaces of stable maps of degree two from two-pointed, genus zero nodal curves to arbitrary-dimensional projective space. Toward this end, first the Betti numbers of \bar{M}_{0,2}(P^r,2) are computed using Serre polynomials and equivariant Serre polynomials. Then, specializing to the space \bar{M}_{0,2}(P^1,2), generators and relations for the Chow ring are given. Chow rings of simpler spaces are also described, and the method of localization and linear algebra is developed. Both tools are used in finding the rel…

映射到阿贝尔簇的超椭圆曲线及其对零环的Beilinson猜想的应用

Hyperelliptic curves mapping to abelian varieties and applications to Beilinson's conjecture for zero-cycles

本文通过构造大量非对偶的超椭圆曲线双有理映射到阿贝尔曲面，并利用这些曲线在零环的Chow群中找到许多有理等价，从而推进了Beilinson猜想关于零环的证明。

An Additive Basis for the Chow Ring of \bar{M}_{0,2}(P^r,2)

We begin a study of the intersection theory of the moduli spaces of degree two stable maps from two-pointed rational curves to arbitrary-dimensional projective space. First we compute the Betti numbers of these spaces using Serre polynomial and equivariant Serre polynomial methods developed by E. Getzler and R. Pandharipande. Then, via the excision sequence, we compute an additive basis for their Chow rings in terms of Chow rings of nonlinear Grassmannians, which have been described by Pandharipande. The ring structure of one of these Chow rings is addressed in a sequel to this paper.

Tautological classes on the moduli space of hyperelliptic curves with rational tails

We study tautological classes on the moduli space of stable $n$-pointed hyperelliptic curves of genus $g$ with rational tails. Our result gives a complete description of tautological relations. The method is based on the approach of Yin in comparing tautological classes on the moduli of curves and the universal Jacobian. It is proven that all relations come from the Jacobian side. The intersection pairings are shown to be perfect in all degrees. We show that the tautological algebra coincides with its image in cohomology via the cycle class map. The latter is identified with monodromy invarian…

亏格 2 曲线上半稳定秩 2 丛的泛模空间的有理 Chow 环

Rational Chow ring of the universal moduli space of semistable rank two bundles over genus two curves

本文确定亏格 2 曲线上秩 2 半稳定丛泛模空间的有理 Chow 环，证明其由重言类生成，并顺带得到相关泛 Jacobian 的 Chow 环。

Divided powers in Chow rings and integral Fourier transforms

We prove that for any monoid scheme M over a field with proper multiplication maps from M x M to M, we have a natural PD-structure on the ideal CH_{>0}(M) of CH(M) with regard to the Pontryagin ring structure. Further we investigate to what extent it is possible to define a Fourier transform on the motive with integral coefficients of the Jacobian of a curve. For a hyperelliptic curve of genus g with sufficiently many k-rational Weierstrass points, we construct such an integral Fourier transform with all the usual properties up to 2^N-torsion, where N is the integral part of 1 + log_2(3g). As …

K3曲面上的超椭圆曲线

Hyperelliptic curves on $K3$ surfaces

该研究证明皮卡秩为1的K3曲面上任意多个一般点可由超椭圆曲线连接，得到小对角的Beauville–Voisin分解及挠阶新界，还将Corvaja–Zucconi定理推广到任意次数K3曲面，证明其二次点在有限扩张后稠密。

Extremality of loci of hyperelliptic curves with marked Weierstrass points

The locus of genus-two curves with n marked Weierstrass points has codimension n inside the moduli space of genus-two curves with n marked points, for n<=6. It is well known that the class of the closure of the divisor obtained for n=1 spans an extremal ray of the cone of effective divisor classes. We generalize this result for all n: we show that the class of the closure of the locus of genus-two curves with n marked Weierstrass points spans an extremal ray of the cone of effective classes of codimension n, for n<=6. A related construction produces extremal nef curve classes in moduli spaces …

Pencils on surfaces with normal crossings and the Kodaira dimension of $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$

We study smoothing of pencils of curves on surfaces with normal crossings. As a consequence we show that the canonical divisor of $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ is not pseudo-effective in some range, implying that $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{12,6},\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{12,7},\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{13,4}$ and $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{14,3}$ are uniruled. We provide upper bounds for the Kodaira dimension of $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{12,8}$ and $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{16}$. We also show that the moduli of $(4g+5)$-pointed hyperelliptic curves $\mathcal{H}_{g,4g+5}$ is uniruled. Together with a re…

Chow Rings of Mp_{0,2}(N,d) and Mbar_{0,2}(P^{N-1},d) and Gromov-Witten Invariants of Projective Hypersurfaces of Degree 1 and 2

In this paper, we prove formulas that represent two-pointed Gromov-Witten invariant <O_{h^a}O_{h^b}>_{0,d} of projective hypersurfaces with d=1,2 in terms of Chow ring of Mbar_{0,2}(P^{N-1},d), the moduli spaces of stable maps from genus 0 stable curves to projective space P^{N-1}. Our formulas are based on representation of the intersection number w(O_{h^a}O_{h^b})_{0,d}, which was introduced by Jinzenji, in terms of Chow ring of Mp_{0,2}(N,d), the moduli space of quasi maps from P^1 to P^{N-1} with two marked points. In order to prove our formulas, we use the results on Chow ring of Mbar_{0,…

A geometric interpretation and a new proof of a relation by Cornalba and Harris

In the 80's M. Cornalba and J. Harris discovered a relation among the Hodge class and the boundary classes in the Picard group with rational coefficients of the moduli space of stable, hyperelliptic curves. They proved the relation by computing degrees of the classes involved for suitable one-parameter families. In the present article we show that their relation can be obtained as the class of an appropriate, geometrically meaningful empty set, thus conforming with C. Faber's general philosophy to finding relations among tautological classes in the Chow ring of the moduli space of curves. The …

曲线的对数Hilbert方案作为加权吹胀及其整环Chow环

Logarithmic Hilbert schemes of curves as weighted blow-ups and their integral Chow rings

本文研究了曲线的对数Hilbert方案作为加权吹胀的结构，并计算了其整环Chow环，利用了加权吹胀的Chow环公式和Castelnuovo准则的加权版本，恢复了对数Hilbert方案为堆栈的结果。

On the tautological ring of Humbert curves

We exhibit a 2-dimensional family of non-hyperelliptic curves of genus 5, called Humbert curves, for which the tautological ring injects into cohomology. In particular, Humbert curves have a multiplicative Chow-Künneth decomposition (in the sense of Shen-Vial), and their Ceresa cycle is torsion.

Chow Rings of Heavy/Light Hassett Spaces via Tropical Geometry

We compute the Chow ring of an arbitrary heavy/light Hassett space $\bar{M}_{0, w}$. These spaces are moduli spaces of weighted pointed stable rational curves, where the associated weight vector $w$ consists of only heavy and light weights. Work of Cavalieri et al. exhibits these spaces as tropical compactifications of hyperplane arrangement complements. The computation of the Chow ring then reduces to intersection theory on the toric variety of the Bergman fan of a graphic matroid. Keel has calculated the Chow ring $A^*(\bar{M}_{0, n})$ of the moduli space $\bar{M}_{0, n}$ of stable nodal $n$…

On the tautological ring of a Jacobian modulo rational equivalence

We consider the Chow ring with rational coefficients of the Jacobian of a curve. Assume D is a divisor in a base point free g^r_d of the curve such that the canonical divisor K is a multiple of the divisor D. We find relations between tautological cycles. We give applications for curves having a degree d covering of P^1 whose ramification points are all of order d, and then for hyperelliptic curves.

A graphical algorithm for the integration of monomials in the Chow ring of the moduli space of stable marked curves of genus zero

The Chow group of zero cycles in the moduli space of stable pointed curves of genus zero is isomorphic to the integer additive group. Let $M$ be monomial in this Chow group. If no two factors of $M$ fulfill a particular quadratic relation, then the monomial can be represented equivalently by a specific tree; otherwise, $M$ is mapped to zero under the stated isomorphism. Starting from this tree representation, we introduce a graphical algorithm for computing the corresponding integer for $M$ under the aforementioned isomorphism. The algorithm is linear with respect to the size of the tree.

Uniruledness of some moduli spaces of stable pointed curves

We prove uniruledness of some moduli spaces $\bar{M}_{g,n}$ of stable curves of genus $g$ with $n$ marked points using linear systems on nonsingular projective surfaces containing the general curve of genus $g$. Precisely we show that $\bar{M}_{g,n}$ is uniruled for $g=12$ and $n \leq 5$, $g=13$ and $n \leq 3$, $g=15$ and $n \leq 2$. We then prove that the pointed hyperelliptic locus $H_{g,n}$ is uniruled for $g \geq 2$ and $n \leq 4g+4$. In the last part we show that a nonsingular complete intersection surface does not carry a linear system containing the general curve of genus $g \geq 16$ an…

Tautological relations in moduli spaces of weighted pointed curves

Pandharipande-Pixton have used the geometry of the moduli space of stable quotients to produce relations between tautological Chow classes on the moduli space $M_g$ of smooth genus g curves. We study a natural extension of their methods to the boundary and more generally to Hassett's moduli spaces $\overline M_{g, w}$ of stable nodal curves with weighted marked points. Algebraic manipulation of these relations brings them into a Faber-Zagier type form. We show that they give Pixton's generalized FZ relations when all weights are one. As a special case, we give a formulation of FZ relations for…

超椭圆曲线模空间的Kodaira分类

The Kodaira classification of the moduli of hyperelliptic curves

本文研究带标记点的超椭圆曲线模空间的双有理几何，完成了其Kodaira分类，并分析了奇点性质及伪有效锥的结构。

射影直线上带点光滑循环覆盖的栈的皮卡群

The Picard Group of the Stack of Pointed Smooth Cyclic Covers of the Projective Line

本文通过将带点光滑循环覆盖栈的开子栈表示为商栈并研究其补集，计算了该栈的整皮卡群及其几何意义明确的生成元，进而推出超椭圆曲线栈和亏格2模空间栈的整皮卡群。

Classes of Weierstrass points on genus 2 curves

We study the codimension n locus of curves of genus 2 with n distinct marked Weierstrass points inside the moduli space of genus 2, n-pointed curves, for n <= 6. We give a recursive description of the classes of the closure of these loci inside the moduli space of stable curves. For n<= 4, we express these classes using a generating function over stable graphs indexing the boundary strata of moduli spaces of pointed stable curves. Similarly, we express the closure of these classes inside the moduli space of curves of compact type for all n. This is a first step in the study of the structure of…

Chen-Ruan cohomology of M_{1,n} and \bar{M}_{1,n}

In this work we compute the Chen--Ruan cohomology and the stringy Chow ring of the moduli spaces of smooth and stable $n$-pointed curves of genus 1. We suggest a definition for an Orbifold Tautological Ring in genus 1, which is both a subring of the Chen--Ruan cohomology and of the stringy Chow ring.

The orbit spaces $G_{n,2}/T^n$ and the Chow quotients $G_{n,2}\!/\!/(\mathbb{C} ^{\ast})^{n}$ of the Grassmann manifolds $G_{n,2}$

The focus of our paper is on the complex Grassmann manifolds $G_{n,2}$ which appear as one of the fundamental objects in developing the interaction between algebraic geometry and algebraic topology. In his well-known paper Kapranov has proved that the Deligne-Mumford compactification $\overline{\mathcal{M}}(0,n)$ of $n$-pointed curves of genus zero can be realized as the Chow quotient $G_{n,2}\!/\!/(\mathbb{C} ^{\ast})^{n}$. In our recent papers, the constructive description of the orbit space $G_{n,2}/T^n$ has been obtained. In getting this result our notions of the CW-complex of the admissib…

The class of the d-elliptic locus in genus 2

We compute the rational Chow class of the locus of genus 2 curves admitting a d-to-1 map to a genus 1 curve, recovering a result of Faber-Pagani when d=2. The answer exhibits quasi-modularity properties similar to those in the Gromov-Witten theory of a fixed genus 1 curve. Along the way, we give a classification of Harris-Mumford admissible covers of a genus 1 curve by a genus 2 curve, which may be of independent interest. As an application of the main calculation, we compute the number of d-elliptic curves in a very general family of genus 2 curves obtained by fixing five branch points of the…

The Chen-Ruan cohomology of moduli of curves of genus 2 with marked points

In this work we describe the Chen-Ruan cohomology of the moduli stacks of smooth and stable genus 2 pointed curves, and its algebraic counterpart: the stringy Chow ring. In the first half of the paper we compute the additive structure of the Chen-Ruan cohomology ring for the moduli stack of stable pointed genus 2 curves, describing it as a rationally graded vector space. In the second part we give generators for the even Chen--Ruan cohomology ring as an algebra on the ordinary cohomology.

On the cusp form motives in genus 1 and level 1

We prove that the moduli space of stable n-pointed curves of genus one and the projector associated to the alternating representation of the symmetric group on n letters define (for n>1) the Chow motive corresponding to cusp forms of weight n+1 for SL(2,Z). This provides an alternative (in level one) to the construction of Scholl.

The moduli stack of $A_r$-stable curves

This paper is the first in a series of four papers aiming to describe the (almost integral) Chow ring of $\bar{\mathcal{M}}_3$, the moduli stack of stable curves of genus $3$. In this paper, we introduce the moduli stack $\tilde{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}^r$ of $n$-pointed $A_r$-stable curves and extend some classical results about $\bar{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ to $\tilde{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}^r$, namely the existence of the contraction morphism. Moreover, we describe the normalization of the locally closed substack of $\tilde{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}^r$ parametrizing curves with $A_h$-singularities for a fixed $h…