Poincaré Duality of Wonderful Compactifications and Tautological Rings

Abstract: Let

g g e q 2

. Let

M_{g, n}^{r t}

be the moduli space of

n

-pointed genus

g

curves with rational tails. Let

C_{g}^{n}

be the

n

-fold fibered power of the universal curve over

M_{g}

. We prove that the tautological ring of

M_{g, n}^{r t}

has Poincar'e duality if and only if the same holds for the tautological ring of

C_{g}^{n}

. We also obtain a presentation of the tautological ring of

M_{g, n}^{r t}

as an algebra over the tautological ring of

C_{g}^{n}

. This proves a conjecture of Tavakol. Our results are valid in the more general setting of wonderful compactifications.

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