User xv54678 - MathOverflow most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-26T02:22:02Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/user/5490 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/21939/what-can-you-do-with-a-compact-moduli-space/21942#21942 Answer by xv54678 for What can you do with a compact moduli space? xv54678 2010-04-20T07:59:22Z 2010-04-20T07:59:22Z <p>Where invariants are constructed as integrals over a moduli space (as in Gromov-Witten theory) the compactness is needed to know that the answer will be well defined. </p>