On the properness of the moduli space of stable surfaces over
arXiv:2302.05651
Abstract
We show the properness of the moduli stack of stable surfaces over , assuming the locally-stable reduction conjecture for stable surfaces. This relies on a local Kawamata--Viehweg vanishing theorem for for 3-dimensional log canonical singularities at closed point of characteristic and which are not log canonical centres.
33 pages, minor modifications. To appear in Moduli