• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.445-464
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• 2013

We describe the one-dimensional and zero-dimensional cusps of the Satake compactification for the paramodular groups in degree two for arbitrary levels. We determine the crossings of the one-dimensional cusps. Applications to computing the dimensions of Siegel modular forms are given.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.149-174
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• 2013

In a previous paper, we described some Siegel modular threefolds which admit a Calabi-Yau model. Using a different method we give in this paper an enlarged list of such varieties. Basic for this method is a paper of van Geemen and Nygaard. They study a variety $\mathcal{X}$ that is the complete intersection of four quadrics in $\mathbb{P}^7(\mathbb{C})$. This is biholomorphic equivalent to the Satake compactification of $\mathcal{H}_2/{\Gamma}^{\prime}$ for a certain subgroup ${\Gamma}^{\prime}{\subset}Sp(2,\mathbb{Z})$ and it will be the starting point of our investigation. It has been pointed out that a (projective) small resolution of this variety is a rigid Calabi-Yau manifold $\tilde{\mathcal{X}}$. Then we will consider the action of quotients of modular groups on $\mathcal{X}$ and study possible resolutions that admits a Calabi-Yau model in the category of complex spaces.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.905-915
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• 1994

Let $M_g$ be the moduli space of isomorphism classes of genus g smooth curves. It is a quasi-projective variety of dimension 3g - 3, when $g > 2$. It is known that a complete subvariety of $M_g$ has dimension $< g-1 [D]$. In general it is not known whether this bound is rigid. For example, it is not known whether $M_4$ has a complete surface in it. But one knows that there is a complete curve through any given finite points [H]. Recently, an explicit example of a complete curve in moduli space is given in [G-H]. In [G-H] they constructed a complete curve of $M_3$ as an intersection of five hypersurfaces of the Satake compactification of $M_3$. One way to get a complete curve of $M_3$ is to find a complete one dimensional family $p : X \to B$ of plane quartics which gives a nontrivial morphism from the base space B to the moduli space $M_3$. This is because every non-hyperelliptic smooth curve of genus three can be realized as a nonsingular plane quartic and vice versa. This paper has come out from the effort to find such a complete family of plane quartics. Since nonsingular quartics form an affine space some fibers of p must be singular ones. In this paper, due to the semistable reduction theorem [M], we search singular plane quartics which can occur as singular fibers of the family above. We first list all distinct plane quartics in terms of singularities.