Stability of the homology of the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces with spin structure (Q752546)

It is shown that the homology of the spin moduli spaces \({\mathcal M}_ g[\epsilon]\) of Riemann surfaces of genus g with spin structure of Arf invariant \(\epsilon\in {\mathbb{Z}}/2{\mathbb{Z}}\) (resp. of the corresponding spin mapping class groups) is stable, i.e. independent of g and \(\epsilon\) for sufficiently large g. As the author notes, the interest in these moduli spaces comes from fermionic string theory. For a second paper the computation of the first (integer coefficients) and second (rational coefficients) homology, and thus of the Picard group, of the spin moduli spaces is announced. All of this generalizes results and methods (constructing simplicial complexes from configuration of simple closed curves on a surface on which the mapping class groups act, then applying spectral sequence arguments) of two of the author's previous papers in which he obtained analogous results for the ordinary mapping class groups resp. moduli spaces.