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Boundary Expression for Chern Classes of the Hodge Bundle on Spaces of Cyclic Covers

Algebraic Geometry 2021-11-03 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We compute an explicit formula for the first Chern class of the Hodge Bundle over the space of admissible cyclic Z/3Z\mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z} covers of nn-pointed rational stable curves as a linear combination of boundary strata. We then apply this formula to give a recursive formula for calculating certain Hodge integrals containing λ1\lambda_1. We also consider covers with a Z/2Z{\mathbb{Z}}/{2\mathbb{Z}} action for which we compute λ2\lambda_2 as a linear combination of codimension two boundary strata.

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@article{arxiv.1912.07720,
  title  = {Boundary Expression for Chern Classes of the Hodge Bundle on Spaces of Cyclic Covers},
  author = {Bryson Owens and Seamus Somerstep},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.07720},
  year   = {2021}
}