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Relations between tautological cycles on Jacobians

Algebraic Geometry 2007-07-09 v2

Abstract

We study tautological cycle classes on the Jacobian of a curve. We prove a new result about the ring of tautological classes on a general curve that allows, among other things, easy dimension calculations and leads to some general results about the structure of this ring. Next we obtain a vanishing result for some of the generating classes p_i; this gives an improvement of an earlier result of Herbaut. Finally we lift a result of Herbaut and van der Geer-Kouvidakis to the Chow ring (as opposed to its quotient modulo algebraic equivalence) and we give a method to obtain further explicit cycle relations. As an ingredient for this we prove a theorem about how Polishchuk's operator D lifts to the tautological subalgebra of Chow(J).

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@article{arxiv.0706.3478,
  title  = {Relations between tautological cycles on Jacobians},
  author = {Ben Moonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.3478},
  year   = {2007}
}
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