The structure of the tautological ring in genus one

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Abstract: We prove Getzler's claims about the tautological ring of stable curves of genus one, i.e. that the tautological ring coincides with the even cohomology ring, and that all relations between generators follow from the WDVV relation and Getzler's relation.


Let \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{g,n}\) be the moduli space of stable genus \(g\) curves with \(n\) ordered marked points. The main results of this paper show that for \(g=1\) the even-dimensional cohomology of \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{1,n}\) is generated additively by the classes of the boundary strata, and moreover all relations among these generators are given by the WDVV equation and \textit{E. Getzler}'s relation [J. Am. Math. Soc. 10, No. 4, 973--998 (1997; Zbl 0909.14002)] (The results were announced previously in [loc. cit.] without proof). As a corollary, the tautological ring of \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{1,n}\) is isomorphic to its even cohomology and it is Gorenstein. The main tools in the proof are Deligne's mixed Hodge theory and Eichler-Shimura theory for local systems.



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