Analytic semi-universal deformations in logarithmic complex geometry

Abstract

We show that every compact complex analytic space endowed with a fine logarithmic structure and every morphism between such spaces admit a semi-universal deformation. These results generalize the analogous results in complex analytic geometry first independently proved by A. Douady and H. Grauert in the '70. We follow Douady's two steps process approach consisting of an infinite-dimensional construction of the semi-universal deformation space followed by a finite-dimensional reduction.