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Uniform Lower Bound for Intersection Numbers of $\psi$-Classes

Geometric Topology 2020-10-19 v2

Abstract

We approximate intersection numbers ψ1d1ψndng,n\big\langle \psi_1^{d_1}\cdots \psi_n^{d_n}\big\rangle_{g,n} on Deligne-Mumford's moduli space Mg,n\overline{\mathcal M}_{g,n} of genus gg stable complex curves with nn marked points by certain closed-form expressions in d1,,dnd_1,\dots,d_n. Conjecturally, these approximations become asymptotically exact uniformly in did_i when gg\to\infty and nn remains bounded or grows slowly. In this note we prove a lower bound for the intersection numbers in terms of the above-mentioned approximatingexpressions multiplied by an explicit factor λ(g,n)\lambda(g,n), which tends to 11 when gg\to\infty and d1++dn2=o(g)d_1+\dots+d_{n-2}=o(g).

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@article{arxiv.2004.02749,
  title  = {Uniform Lower Bound for Intersection Numbers of $\psi$-Classes},
  author = {Vincent Delecroix and Élise Goujard and Peter Zograf and Anton Zorich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02749},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Dedicated to D.B. Fuchs on the occasion of his 80th birthday

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