Relations between tautological cycles on Jacobians (Q1026410)

The author studies tautological cycle classes on the Jacobian of a curve getting some general results about the structure of the ring of tautological classes on a curve . Further he lifts a result of \textit{F. Herbaut} [Compos. Math. 143, 883--899 (2007; Zbl 1187.14006)] and \textit{G. van der Geer} and \textit{A. Kouvidakis} [Compos. Math. 143, 900--908 (2007; Zbl 1125.14005)] to the Chow ring (as opposed to its quotient modulo algebraic equivalence) and he gives a method to obtain further explicit cycle relations. As an ingredient for this he proves a theorem about how Polishchuk's operator \(\mathcal{D}\) lifts to the tautological subalgebra of the Chow ring CH\((J)\) of the Jacobian \(J\) of a curve.