Symmetric products of a semistable degeneration of surfaces
arXiv:1609.02306
Abstract
We explicitly construct a -normal crossing Gorenstein canonical model of the relative symmetric products of a local semistable degeneration of surfaces without a triple point by means of toric geometry. Using this model, we calculate the stringy -polynomial of the relative symmetric product. We also construct a minimal model of degeneration of Hilbert schemes explicitly.
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