Combinatorics of compactified universal Jacobians (Q1731590)

This article deals with the combinatorial structure of the compactified universal Jacobian over $\overline{\mathcal M}_{g}$, the compactified moduli space of smooth curves of genus $g\ge 2$, in degrees $g-1$ and $g$ and its relation with orientations of stable graphs. \par The first section, after a short introduction, recalls the basics of graph theory needed in the following. \newline The second one studies the functorial behaviour of generalized orientations of graphs with respect to edge-contraction, proving, in particular, the functoriality of the posets of totally cyclic and rooted orientations on a stable graph. \newline Eventually, the last section applies the graph-theoretic results to the algebro-geometric setting, exhibiting, in particular, a graded stratification of the compactified Jacobian of degree $g-1$ (respectively $g$) of a stable curve of genus $g$ in terms of totally cyclic (resp. rooted) orientations on the dual graph of the curve.