The global moduli theory of symplectic varieties

Abstract

We develop the global moduli theory of symplectic varieties in the sense of Beauville. We prove a number of analogs of classical results from the smooth case, including a global Torelli theorem. In particular, this yields a new proof of Verbitsky's global Torelli theorem in the smooth case (assuming $b_2\geq 5$) which does not use the existence of a hyperk\"ahler metric or twistor deformations.