The moduli space of curves, double Hurwitz numbers, and Faber's intersection number conjecture

DOI10.1007/S00026-011-0102-9MaRDI QIDQ659646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. Vakil, I. P. Goulden, David M. Jackson

Publication date 24 January 2012

Published in Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611659

zbMATH Keywords

moduli space of curvestautological ringbranched coversELSV formulacurve with rational tailsdouble Hurwitz numbersFaber-Hurwitz classesFaber's conjecturesMumford-Morita-Miller classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic combinatorics (05E99) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Picard schemes, higher Jacobians (14K30)

Abstract: We define the dimension 2g-1 Faber-Hurwitz Chow/homology classes on the moduli space of curves, parametrizing curves expressible as branched covers of P^1 with given ramification over infinity and sufficiently many fixed ramification points elsewhere. Degeneration of the target and judicious localization expresses such classes in terms of localization trees weighted by ``top intersections of tautological classes and genus 0 double Hurwitz numbers. This identity of generating series can be inverted, yielding a ``combinatorialization of top intersections of psi-classes. As genus 0 double Hurwitz numbers with at most 3 parts over infinity are well understood, we obtain Faber's Intersection Number Conjecture for up to 3 parts, and an approach to the Conjecture in general (bypassing the Virasoro Conjecture). We also recover other geometric results in a unified manner, including Looijenga's theorem, the socle theorem for curves with rational tails, and the hyperelliptic locus in terms of kappa_{g-2}.

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