On the Weil-Petersson volume and the first Chern class of the moduli space of Calabi-Yau manifolds (Q818625)

In a previous paper [J. Inst. Math. Jussieu 3, 185--229 (2004; Zbl 1066.32028)], the present authors proved the boundedness of the Weil-Petersson volume. The main results of the paper under review are that the volume and the integrations of Ricci curvature of the Weil-Petersson metric on the moduli space of Calabi-Yau manifolds are rational numbers. In particular, the Ricci curvature defines the first Chern class of the moduli space, in the sense of \textit{D. Mumford} [Invent. Math. 42, 239--272 (1977; Zbl 0365.14012)]. Finally, a conjecture on Weil-Petersson subvarieties is stated.