An Elementary GIT Construction of the Moduli Space of Stable Maps

Abstract

This paper provides a GIT construction of the Moduli Space of Stable Maps as a GIT quotient of the Graph Space by SL(2,C). As a corollary, we get a birational map from the 0-pointed Moduli Space to a projective variety.

23 pages, 1 figure

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