The weakened Roberts conjecture for cubic Hurwitz stacks

Let kk be a field of characteristic not dividing 66, let gg be the genus, and let Hur3,g,k\mathrm{Hur}_{3,g,k} be the degree-33 Hurwitz stack. Write L\mathbb L for the class of the affine line and K0~^(Stacksk)\widehat{\widetilde{K_0}}(\operatorname{Stacks}_k) for the completed Grothendieck ring of stacks. Equality modulo codimension rr means that the difference lies in the filtered part of dimension at most the common dimension minus rr. The weakened Roberts conjecture.

{Hur3,g,k}LdimHur3,g,k(1+L1)(1L3)\frac{\{\mathrm{Hur}_{3,g,k}\}}{\mathbb L^{\dim \mathrm{Hur}_{3,g,k}}}\equiv (1+\mathbb L^{-1})(1-\mathbb L^{-3})

modulo codimension g13\frac{g-1}{3} in K0~^(Stacksk)\widehat{\widetilde{K_0}}(\operatorname{Stacks}_k). This is a motivic analogue of the second-order asymptotic for cubic fields, obtained by weakening the codimension predicted by Roberts' conjecture; the source presents it as the next statement to be established in the Grothendieck-ring setting.

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Aaron Landesman, Ravi Vakil and Melanie Matchett Wood, “Low degree Hurwitz stacks in the Grothendieck ring”, arXiv:2203.01840 (2025).

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