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Let $\mathcal{M}, \mathcal{N}$ be two "well-behaved" (i.e. representable by an algebraic stack parametrising flat, proper, surjective, finitely presented morphisms with geometric fibres being the objects of interest) moduli problems. As an example you can have $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_g$ in mind.

I am interested in a moduli stack parametrising morphism between these objects, so the $S$-points for a scheme $S$ should consist of triples $(M,N,f)$ with $M \in \mathcal{M}(S), N \in \mathcal{N}(S)$ and $f: M \to N$ be a morphism over $S$. If such a stack exists, then there are many locally closed substacks, i.e. finite morphisms of given degree, etc. of general interest (at least to me).

Jack Hall and David Rydh give in arxiv:1011.5484 the following theorem:

Let $X \to S$ be a morphism of algebraic stacks that is locally of finite presentation, with quasi-finite and separated diagonal. Let $Z \to S$ be a morphism of algebraic stacks that is proper, flat, and of finite presentation with finite diagonal. Then the $S$-stack $T \to \operatorname{Hom}_T (Z \times_S T, X \times_S T )$ is algebraic, locally of finite presentation over S, with quasi-affine diagonal over $S$.

I think that considering the universal families $\mathcal{UM} \to \mathcal{M}$ and $\mathcal{UN} \to \mathcal{N}$ by constructing the stack \begin{align*} \mathcal{HOM}_{\mathcal{M} \times \mathcal{N}}(\mathcal{UM} \times \mathcal{N}, \mathcal{UN} \times \mathcal{M}) \end{align*}

I can solve the moduli problem as the universal families by definition fulfill all necessary properties.

However, I think it is surprising that I cannot find this very general construction anywhere in literature, so I would be happy if an expert on stack theory can tell me whether my construction is correct or if there is a mistake.

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    $\begingroup$ This very general construction is everywhere in the literature. Hom was an explicit application of the construction of Hilb in Grothendieck's Bourbaki seminars. For the setting you mention, this follows already from Mike Artin's "Algebraization of formal moduli, I". If you allow the morphisms to be not representable by algebraic space, but rather by Deligne-Mumford stacks, this follows from my work with Olsson. For some Artin stacks this follows by Lieblich. Hall and Rydh did some more cases . . . $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 9, 2023 at 11:29

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