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This paper was motivated by future applications in symplectic geometry, in which some moduli spaces of <em>Jem>-holomorphic curves can be manifolds or Kuranishi spaces with g-corners rather than ordinary corners.
Our manifolds with g-corners are related to the ‘interior binomial varieties’ of Kottke and Melrose [20], and the ‘positive log differentiable spaces’ of Gillam and Molcho [6].