The Faber–Zagier conjecture for tautological relations on moduli spaces of curves

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Let τa\tau_a denote the cotangent-line classes used to define intersection numbers on the moduli spaces of stable curves, and let ℶ\boldsymbol{\beth} denote the tautological ring generated by the classes ℶj\boldsymbol{\beth}_j on M3ℓ−1{\mathcal M}_{3\ell-1}. Define rational numbers aj∈Qa_j\in {\mathbb Q} by

∑j=1∞ajtj=−log⁡(∑m=0∞(6m)!(2m)!(3m)!tm).\sum_{j=1}^\infty a_j t^j=-\log\left(\sum_{m=0}^\infty\frac{(6m)!}{(2m)!(3m)!}t^m\right).

Then the coefficient of tℓt^\ell in

exp⁡(∑j=1∞ajκjtj)∈(Q[κ1,κ2,… ])[[t]]\exp\left(\sum_{j=1}^\infty a_j\kappa_jt^j\right)\in\big({\mathbb Q}[\kappa_1,\kappa_2,\dots]\big)[[t]]

for each ℓ≥1\ell\geq 1 gives the unique codimension-ℓ\ell tautological relation among the κ\kappa-classes on M3ℓ−1{\mathcal M}_{3\ell-1}.

References

Primary source

Olivia Dumitrescu and Motohico Mulase, “Lectures on the topological recursion for Higgs bundles and quantum curves”, arXiv:1509.09007 (2016).

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