Faber's Gorenstein quotient conjecture from relations on the universal curve

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Let Cg2g−1C_g^{2g-1} be the (2g−1)(2g-1)-fold fiber product of the universal curve over MgM_g, let E\mathbb{E} be the Hodge bundle, and let KiK_i and DijD_{ij} denote the tautological classes on Cg2g−1C_g^{2g-1}. Let π:Cg2g−1→Mg\pi:C_g^{2g-1}\to M_g be the forgetful map. In the polynomial ring Q[κ1,…,κg−2]\mathbb{Q}[\kappa_1,\ldots,\kappa_{g-2}], define IgI_g to be generated by the classes

π∗(M⋅cj(F2g−1−E)),\pi_*(M\cdot c_j(\mathbb{F}_{2g-1}-\mathbb{E})),

where j≥gj\geq g and MM is a monomial in the KiK_i and DijD_{ij}. Faber's quotient conjecture. The quotient ring Q[κ1,…,κg−2]/Ig\mathbb{Q}[\kappa_1,\ldots,\kappa_{g-2}]/I_g is Gorenstein with socle in degree g−2g-2, and hence is isomorphic to R∗(Mg)R^*(M_g). The construction seeks to recover the tautological ring from geometric relations; it is known to work in a range of genera, but the asserted Gorenstein property and identification are not known in general.

References

Primary source

Mehdi Tavakol, “The moduli space of curves and its invariants”, arXiv:1610.09589 (2016).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2000–2016). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1301.4561, arXiv:1007.3091, arXiv:math/0605488, arXiv:math/0304298, arXiv:math/0002112.

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09589 Faber (1999), Conjectural descriptions of the tautological ring of the moduli space of curves

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