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Algebraic construction of Witten's top Chern class

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We give a construction of Witten's "top Chern class" on the compactified moduli space of curves with higher spin structures and show that it satisfies most of the axioms proposed in math.AG/9905034.

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@article{arxiv.math/0011032,
  title  = {Algebraic construction of Witten's top Chern class},
  author = {Alexander Polishchuk and Arkady Vaintrob},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0011032},
  year   = {2007}
}

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23 pages, AMSLatex

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