Polynomial families of tautological classes on M^rt_g,n

Generalizations (algebraic spaces, stacks) (14A20) Stacks and moduli problems (14D23) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35)

Abstract: We study classes

on the moduli space of stable, genus g curves with rational tails defined by pushing forward the virtual fundamental classes of spaces of relative stable maps to an unparameterized projective line. A comparison with classes

Q_{g, T}

arising from sections of the universal Jacobian shows the classes

are polynomial in the parts of the partitions indexing the special ramification data. Virtual localization on moduli spaces of relative stable maps gives sufficient relations to compute the coefficients of these polynomials in various cases.

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Let \(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}^{\mathrm{rt}}\) be the moduli space of stable, \(n\)-pointed, genus \(g\) curves with rational tails. The paper deals with the calculation and comparison of two Chow classes in the intersection theory of \(\mathcal{M}^{\mathrm{rt}}_{g,n}\) coming from two possible characterizations of the following geometric condition: given a smooth, \(n\)-pointed, genus \(g\) curve \(C\) over \(\mathbb{C}\), there exists a map to \(\mathbb{P}^1\) with prescribed ramification profile over two points.NEWLINENEWLINEThis property naturally defines a locus \(\mathcal{L}\) inside the moduli space \(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}\) and can be expressed in two ways: either as the image of a morphism from a moduli space of covers of \(\mathbb{P}^1\), or by intersecting sections of the universal Jacobian \(\mathcal{J}_{g,n}\). The first leads to classes \(P_{g,T}\), firstly introduced by \textit{T. Graber} and \textit{R. Vakil} [Duke Math. J. 130, No. 1, 1--37 (2005; Zbl 1088.14007)] and defined by pushing forward appropriate virtual fundamental classes, while the second leads to classes \(Q_{g,T}\) arising from sections of the universal Jacobian.NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors provide a comparison between the classes \(P_{g,T}\) and \(Q_{g,T}\) over \(\mathcal{M}^{\mathrm{rt}}_{g,T}\) and this result, together with localization techniques and the study of natural relative obstruction theories, leads to the computation of the class \(P_{1,T}\) in terms of standard tautological classes.

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