Boundary expression for Chern classes of the Hodge bundle on spaces of cyclic covers (Q2238467)

This paper studies the intersection theory of moduli spaces of cyclic admissible covers. The main result in this paper gives an explicit formula for computing the first Chern class of the Hodge bundle over the space of admissible \(\mu_3\)-covers of \(n\)-pointed rational stable curves as a linear combination of boundary strata. The authors apply this formula to give a recursive formula for calculating certain families of Hodge integrals containing \(\lambda_1\). They also consider covers with a \(\mu_2\)-action for which they compute \(\lambda_2\) as a linear combination of codimension-\(2\) boundary strata. This paper is organized as follows: Section 1 is an introduction to the subject and summarizes the main results. In Section 2 the authors recall some of the notions they need about moduli spaces of rational, pointed and stable curves. In Section 3 they introduce moduli spaces of admissible cyclic covers of rational curves. In Section 4 the authors compute an expression for the class \(\lambda_1\) on moduli spaces of \(\mu_3\)-admissible covers as a linear combination of boundary divisors. The main technique of proof consists of intersecting divisors with boundary curves. In Section 5 they derive a recursive structure among certain Hodge integrals on spaces of cyclic degree-\(3\) covers. Section 6 deals with the study of the second Chern class of the Hodge bundle over spaces of degree-\(2\) cyclic admissible covers.