English

Integrals of $\psi$-classes on twisted double ramification cycles and spaces of differentials

Algebraic Geometry 2025-01-03 v2

Abstract

We prove a closed formula for the integral of a power of a single ψ\psi-class on strata of kk-differentials. In many cases, these integrals correspond to intersection numbers on twisted double ramification cycles. Then we conjecture an expression of a refinement of double ramification cycles according to the parity of spin structures. Assuming that this conjecture is valid, we also compute the integral of a single ψ\psi-class on the even and odd components of strata of kk-differentials. As an application of these results we give a closed formula for the Euler characteristic of components of minimal strata of abelian differentials.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2112.04238,
  title  = {Integrals of $\psi$-classes on twisted double ramification cycles and spaces of differentials},
  author = {Matteo Costantini and Adrien Sauvaget and Johannes Schmitt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.04238},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

68 pages; final version, to appear in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society