Twisted stable maps with colliding points
arXiv:2508.08787
Abstract
We study moduli spaces of stable maps from pointed curves, where the points are allowed to coincide, with target a tame Deligne-Mumford stack. This generalizes the Abramovich-Vistoli theory of twisted stable maps as well as work of Hassett, Alexeev and Guy, and Bayer and Manin, who studied stable maps to projective varieties from curves with weighted marked points.