Pixton's completeness conjecture for the 3-spin relations

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Let FZ∗(M‾g,n)\mathsf{FZ}^*(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}) be the space of 33-spin relations on the moduli space of stable curves, and let FZ∗(Mg,nct⁡)\mathsf{FZ}^*(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}^{\operatorname{ct}}) be its restriction to the compact type locus. Define

RFZ∗(M‾g,n)=S∗(M‾g,n)/FZ∗(M‾g,n),RFZ∗(Mg,nct⁡)=S∗(Mg,nct⁡)/FZ∗(Mg,nct⁡).\mathsf{R}^*_{\mathsf{FZ}}(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n})=\mathsf{S}^*(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n})/\mathsf{FZ}^*(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}),\qquad \mathsf{R}^*_{\mathsf{FZ}}(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}^{\operatorname{ct}})=\mathsf{S}^*(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}^{\operatorname{ct}})/\mathsf{FZ}^*(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}^{\operatorname{ct}}).

Pixton's conjecture. The 33-spin relations are complete in Chow and cohomology:

RFZ∗(M‾g,n)=R∗(M‾g,n)=RH∗(M‾g,n)\mathsf{R}^*_{\mathsf{FZ}}(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n})=\mathsf{R}^*(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n})=\mathsf{RH}^*(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n})

and

RFZ∗(Mg,nct⁡)=R∗(Mg,nct⁡)=RH∗(Mg,nct⁡).\mathsf{R}^*_{\mathsf{FZ}}(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}^{\operatorname{ct}})=\mathsf{R}^*(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}^{\operatorname{ct}})=\mathsf{RH}^*(\mathcal{M}_{g,n}^{\operatorname{ct}}).

The source states that the known relations are contained in the span of the 33-spin relations and that this conjecture remains open; the paper proves new cases, including M6ct⁡\mathcal{M}_{6}^{\operatorname{ct}}, M5,2ct⁡\mathcal{M}_{5,2}^{\operatorname{ct}}, and M7ct⁡\mathcal{M}_{7}^{\operatorname{ct}}.

References

Primary source

Samir Canning, Hannah Larson and Johannes Schmitt, “The Gorenstein property and Pixton's conjecture for compact type moduli”, arXiv:2607.02249 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2406.10516, arXiv:1207.1918.

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