Tautological relations in moduli spaces of weighted pointed curves
Abstract
Pandharipande-Pixton have used the geometry of the moduli space of stable quotients to produce relations between tautological Chow classes on the moduli space of smooth genus g curves. We study a natural extension of their methods to the boundary and more generally to Hassett's moduli spaces of stable nodal curves with weighted marked points. Algebraic manipulation of these relations brings them into a Faber-Zagier type form. We show that they give Pixton's generalized FZ relations when all weights are one. As a special case, we give a formulation of FZ relations for the n-fold product of the universal curve over .
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@article{arxiv.1306.6580,
title = {Tautological relations in moduli spaces of weighted pointed curves},
author = {Felix Janda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.6580},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Part of author's PhD thesis, proof of Pixton's relations superseded by arXiv:1509.08421, 31 pages, 1 figure, v2: various corrections