The Chow rings of the moduli spaces of curves of genus 7, 8, and 9

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Abstract: The rational Chow ring of the moduli space mathcalMg of curves of genus g is known for gleq6. Here, we determine the rational Chow rings of mathcalM7,mathcalM8, and mathcalM9 by showing they are tautological. One key ingredient is intersection theory on Hurwitz spaces of degree 4 and 5 covers of mathbbP1, as developed by the authors in [1]. The main focus of this paper is a detailed geometric analysis of special tetragonal and pentagonal covers whose associated vector bundles on mathbbP1 are so unbalanced that they fail to lie in the large open subset considered in [1]. In genus 9, we use work of Mukai [23] to present the locus of hexagonal curves as a global quotient stack, and, using equivariant intersection theory, we show its Chow ring is generated by restrictions of tautological classes.



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