抄録
This paper presents a definition of ℂ*-equivariant degeneration families of compact complex curves over ℂ. Those families are called ℂ*-pencils of curves. We give the canonical method to construct them and prove some results on relations between them and normal surface singularities with ℂ*-action. We also define ℂ*-equivariant degeneration families of compact complex curves over ℙ1. From this, it is possible to introduce a notion of dual ℂ*-pencils of curves naturally. Associating it, we prove a duality for cyclic covers of normal surface singularities with ℂ*-action.