A hyperelliptic Hodge integral

DOI10.4171/PM/1985MaRDI QIDQ2520536zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jonathan Wise

Publication date 15 December 2016

Published in Portugaliae Mathematica. Nova Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3964

zbMATH Keywords

Hodge integralhyperelliptic curveshyperelliptic Gromov-Witten invariantsorbifold Gromov-Witten theoryWeierstrass point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stacks and moduli problems (14D23) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35)

Abstract: We calculate the hyperelliptic Hodge integral lambda_g lambda_{g-1} / (1 - psi) for use in arXiv:math/0702219. The proof uses the WDVV equations for the genus zero Gromov--Witten invariants of P(1,1,2).

Review text

The main result of the paper is the computation of a Hodge integral on a compactification \(\overline{\mathcal{W}_g}\) of the moduli space of hyperelliptic curves with one marked Weierstrass point. It measures the weight with which a contracted component of genus \(g\), attached at the Weierstrass point, contributes to the hyperelliptic Gromov-Witten invariants. The theorem is proved by reinterpreting \(\overline{\mathcal{W}_g}\) as a moduli space of stable maps from orbifold curves to the stack \(B(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})\), where the orbifold curves are obtained by quotienting the hyperelliptic curves by their hyperelliptic involutions. The quotients are rational curves, so the invariant is genus \(0\), and can be evaluated via the WDVV equations. The orbifold calculation has an advantage over an equivariant one because it allows to choose a convenient target, \(\mathbb{P}(1,1,2)\), and to apply the algebraic version of the orbifold Gromov-Witten theory due to Abramovich, Graber and Vistoli [\textit{D. Abramovich} et al., Am. J. Math. 130, No. 5, 1337--1398 (2008; Zbl 1193.14070)].

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