Hain and Looijenga's compactly supported tautological duality conjecture

Let R(Mg)R^{\bullet}(M_g) be the tautological algebra of the moduli space MgM_g of smooth genus-gg curves, and let Rc(Mg)R^{\bullet}_c(M_g) be the compactly supported tautological ideal consisting of classes in R(Mg)R^{\bullet}(\overline{M}_g) whose pull-back to every boundary stratum vanishes. The intersection product gives pairings

Rk(Mg)×Rc3g3k(Mg)Rc3g3(Mg)Q,k=0,1,2,R^k(M_g)\times R^{3g-3-k}_c(M_g)\to R^{3g-3}_c(M_g)\cong\mathbb{Q}, \qquad k=0,1,2,\dots

Hain and Looijenga's conjecture. These intersection pairings are perfect (Poincaré duality), and Rc(Mg)R^{\bullet}_c(M_g) is a free R(Mg)R^{\bullet}(M_g)-module of rank one.

This is a compactly supported analogue of the Gorenstein and Poincaré-duality conjectures for tautological rings. The conjecture is formulated here in the case n=0n=0; the supplied source does not state whether it has been resolved.

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Primary source

Carel Faber, “A remark on a conjecture of Hain and Looijenga”, arXiv:0812.3631 (2012).

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