Combinatorial Miller-Morita-Mumford classes and Witten cycles

DOI10.2140/AGT.2004.4.473zbMATH Open1072.57013arXivmath/0207042OpenAlexW2111730293MaRDI QIDQ1880640FDOQ1880640

Authors: Kiyoshi Igusa 

Publication date: 30 September 2004

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We obtain a combinatorial formula for the Miller-Morita-Mumford classes for the mapping class group of punctured surfaces and prove Witten's conjecture that they are proportional to the dual to the Witten cycles. The proportionality constant is shown to be exactly as conjectured by Arbarello and Cornalba [J. Alg. Geom. 5 (1996) 705-749]. We also verify their conjectured formula for the leading coefficient of the polynomial expressing the Kontsevich cycles in terms of the Miller-Morita-Mumford classes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207042

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zbMATH Keywords

tautological classesribbon graphsWitten conjectureMapping class groupfat graphsMiller-Morita-Mumford classesStasheff associahedra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

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