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

DOI10.1007/S00026-011-0102-9zbMATH Open1236.14031arXivmath/0611659OpenAlexW2014451575WikidataQ123129529 ScholiaQ123129529MaRDI QIDQ659646FDOQ659646

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

Publication date: 24 January 2012

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

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}.

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

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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)

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