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

DOI10.1007/s00026-011-0102-9zbMath1236.14031arXivmath/0611659WikidataQ123129529 ScholiaQ123129529MaRDI QIDQ659646

Ravi Vakil, David M. Jackson, Ian P. Goulden

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

branched covers; moduli space of curves; Mumford-Morita-Miller classes; tautological ring; ELSV formula; curve with rational tails; double Hurwitz numbers; Faber-Hurwitz classes; Faber's conjectures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

05E99: Algebraic combinatorics

14H10: Families, moduli of curves (algebraic)

14K30: Picard schemes, higher Jacobians

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