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Tautological relations in moduli spaces of weighted pointed curves

Algebraic Geometry 2015-09-30 v2

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 MgM_g of smooth genus g curves. We study a natural extension of their methods to the boundary and more generally to Hassett's moduli spaces Mg,w\overline M_{g, w} 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 MgM_g.

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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Part of author's PhD thesis, proof of Pixton's relations superseded by arXiv:1509.08421, 31 pages, 1 figure, v2: various corrections