Combinatorial Miller-Morita-Mumford classes and Witten cycles

DOI10.2140/AGT.2004.4.473MaRDI QIDQ1880640zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kiyoshi Igusa

Publication date 30 September 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207042, https://eudml.org/doc/125143, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol4/agt-4-23.abs.html

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)

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.

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