A curious identity that implies Faber's conjecture
Combinatorics
2021-04-23 v2 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We prove that a curious generating series identity implies Faber's intersection number conjecture (by showing that it implies a combinatorial identity already given in arXiv:1902.02742) and give a new proof of Faber's conjecture by directly proving this identity.
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@article{arxiv.2101.02187,
title = {A curious identity that implies Faber's conjecture},
author = {Elba Garcia-Failde and Don Zagier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.02187},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
4 pages (in v2: minor improvements)