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Comparing tautological relations from the equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of projective spaces and spin structures

Algebraic Geometry 2015-09-30 v3

Abstract

Pandharipande-Pixton-Zvonkine's proof of Pixton's generalized Faber-Zagier relations in the tautological ring of Mg,n\overline M_{g, n} has started the study of tautological relations from semisimple cohomological field theories. In this article we compare the relations obtained in the examples of the equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of projective spaces and of spin structures. We prove an equivalence between the P1\mathbb P^1- and 3-spin relations, and more generally between restricted Pm\mathbb P^m-relations and similarly restricted (m + 2)-spin relations. We also show that the general Pm\mathbb P^m-relations imply the (m + 2)-spin relations.

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@article{arxiv.1407.4778,
  title  = {Comparing tautological relations from the equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of projective spaces and spin structures},
  author = {Felix Janda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.4778},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Part of author's PhD thesis, result superseded by arXiv:1505.03419, 31 pages; v3: Appendix rewritten, various corrections