Polynomial point counts and odd cohomology vanishing on moduli spaces of stable curves
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Publication:6402214
arXiv2206.07759MaRDI QIDQ6402214FDOQ6402214
Authors: Jonas Bergström, Carel Faber, Sam Payne 
Publication date: 15 June 2022
Abstract: We compute the number of F_q-points on M_{4,n}, for n less than or equal to 3, and show that it is a polynomial in q, using a sieve based on Hasse-Weil zeta functions. As an application, we prove that the rational singular cohomology groups of moduli spaces of stable curves of genus g with n marked points vanish in all odd degrees less than or equal to 9, for all g and n. Both results confirm predictions of the Langlands program, via the conjectural correspondence with polarized algebraic cuspidal automorphic representations of conductor 1, which are classified in low weight. Our vanishing result for odd cohomology resolves a problem posed by Arbarello and Cornalba in the 1990s.
Transcendental methods, Hodge theory (algebro-geometric aspects) (14C30) Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies (14F20) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Curves over finite and local fields (11G20) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15)
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