The Chow ring of the stack of cyclic covers of the projective line

DOI10.5802/AIF.2672MaRDI QIDQ424832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Damiano Fulghesu, Filippo Viviani

Publication date 6 June 2012

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4091, https://eudml.org/doc/219733

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic backstabbingcyclic coversequivariant intersection theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stacks and moduli problems (14D23) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10)

Abstract: In this paper we compute the integral Chow ring of the stack of smooth uniform cyclic covers of the projective line and we give explicit generators.

Review text

The authors compute the integral Chow ring of the moduli stack \(\mathcal{H}_{sm}(1,r,d)\) parametrizing smooth uniform \(\mu_r\)-cyclic covers of \(\mathbb{P}^1\), whose branch divisor has degree \(N=rd\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe general idea is as follows. By a result of \textit{A. Arsie} and \textit{A. Vistoli} [Compos. Math. 140, No. 3, 647--666 (2004; Zbl 1169.14301)] that the stack \(\mathcal{H}_{sm}(1,r,d)\) is a global quotient stack \([(\mathrm{Sym}^N(V^*)\setminus\Delta)/G]\), where \(V\) is the standard representation of \(\mathrm{GL}_2\) (so that \(\mathrm{Sym}^N(V^*)\) is the vector space of homogeneous binary forms of degree \(N\)), \(\Delta\) is the discriminant consisting of binary forms with multiple roots, \(G=\mathrm{GL}_2\) when \(d\) is odd, and \(G=\mathbb{G}_m\times \mathrm{PGL}_2\) when \(d\) is even. Then one can apply equivariant intersection theory developed by \textit{D. Eddin} and \textit{W. Graham} [Invent. Math. 131, No. 3, 595--644 (1998; Zbl 0940.14003)] and \textit{B. Totaro} [Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 67, 249--281 (1999; Zbl 0967.14005)] getting that NEWLINE\[NEWLINEA^*(\mathcal{H}(1,r,d))=A^*_G(\mathrm{Sym}^N(V^*)\setminus\Delta).NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The computation then boils down to computing the equivariant Chow ring in question. The result is that when \(d\) is odd, NEWLINE\[NEWLINEA^*(\mathcal{H}(1,r,d))=\frac{\mathbb{Z}[c_1,c_2]}{\langle r(N-1)c_1, \frac{(N-r)(N-r-2)}{4}c_1^2-N(N-2)c_2\rangle},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE when \(d\) is even, NEWLINE\[NEWLINEA^*(\mathcal{H}(1,r,d))=\frac{\mathbb{Z}[c_1,c_2,c_3]}{\langle P_N(-rc_1), 2c_3, 2r(N-1)c_1, 2r^2c_1^2-\frac{N(N-2)}{2}c_2 \rangle},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(c_i\) are (the pull-back of) the Chern classes of the standard representation \(V\) of \(\mathrm{GL}_2\). \(p_N\) is a monic polynomial which can be explicitly written down.NEWLINENEWLINEFinally, the authors also give explicit description for the generators of the Chow ring as Chern classes of natural vector bundles.

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