The Fermat cubic and special Hurwitz loci in M

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Authors Gavril Farkas

Publication date 14 January 2010

Published in Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1327, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bbms/1260369402

zbMATH Keywords

curvesmoduli

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10)

Abstract: We compute the class of the locus in M_g of curves having a pencil with two unspecified triple ramification points. This is the first example of a geometric divisor on M_g which is not the pull-back of a divisor on the moduli space of pseudo-stable curves. This space, in which elliptic tails are replaced by cusps, appears as a result of the first divisorial contraction in the minimal model program for M_g. In particular, we show that our divisor picks-up the locus of Fermat cubic tails when restricted to the boundary divisor of elliptic tails. We also give various enumerative applications concerning coverings of the generic curve having special ramification behaviour.

Review text

The Hurwitz locus in the moduli space \(\bar M_g\) of stable curves of genus \(g\) corresponds to the locus of curves equipped with a map \(C\to \mathbb P^1\), with ramification points of preassigned type. Hurwitz loci have been intensively studied, in the case of one ramification points. The corresponding cycle classes are useful for a description of the Chow ring of \(\bar M_g\). The author starts the study of the Hurwitz locus \(IR_d \subset \bar M_{2d-3}\), of curves with a pencil \(C\to \mathbb P^1\), having two triple ramification points. \(IR_d\) is a divisor in the Picard group of \(\bar M_{2d-3}\), and it is not the pull-back of a divisor in the moduli space of pseudo-stable curves. The author determines an expression of \(IR_d\) in terms of the standard basis for Pic\((\bar M_{2d-3})\). He also describes curves in the intersection of \(IR_d\) with the boundary divisor of curves splitting in two components.

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