Equivariant Euler characteristics on {\mkern9mu\overline{\mkern-9mu{\mathscr{M\,}}\!}\!}_{g, n}

Abstract: Let

o v e r l i n e {m a t h s c r M}_{g, n}

be the moduli space of

n

-pointed stable genus

g

curves, and let

m a t h s c r M_{g, n}

be the moduli space of

n

-pointed smooth curves of genus

g .

In this paper, we obtain an asymptotic expansion for the characteristic of the free modular operad

m a t h b b M m a t h c a l V

generated by a stable

m a t h b b S

-module

m a t h c a l V,

allowing to effectively compute

m a t h b b S_{n}

-equivariant Euler characteristics of

o v e r l i n e {m a t h s c r M}_{g, n}

in terms of

m a t h b b S_{n^{'}}

-equivariant Euler characteristics of

m a t h s c r M_{g^{'}!, n^{'}}

with

0 l e g^{'} l e g,

e x t r m m a x 0, 3 - 2 g^{'} l e n^{'} l e 2 (g - g^{'}) + n .

This answers a question posed by Getzler and Kapranov by making their integral representation of the characteristic of the modular operad

m a t h b b M m a t h c a l V

effective. To illustrate how the asymptotic expansion is used, we give formulas expressing the generating series of the

m a t h b b S_{n}

-equivariant Euler characteristics of

o v e r l i n e {m a t h s c r M}_{g, n},

for

g = 0, 1

and

2,

in terms of the corresponding generating series associated with

m a t h s c r M_{g, n} .

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