Qin's Euler partition-function conjecture for moduli spaces of curves

Let XX) be a smooth projective complex variety. Let In(X,β)\mathfrak I_n(X,\beta) be the moduli space of 11-dimensional closed subschemes ZZ of XX satisfying the paper's fixed numerical condition, and let X[n]=In(X,0)X^{[n]}=\mathfrak I_n(X,0) be the Hilbert scheme of length-nn 00-dimensional closed subschemes of XX. Qin's Euler partition-function conjecture. The reduced partition function for the Euler numbers

nχ(In(X,β))qnnχ(X[n])qn\frac{\sum_n\chi\bigl(\mathfrak I_n(X,\beta)\bigr)q^n}{\sum_n\chi\bigl(X^{[n]}\bigr)q^n}

is a rational function of qq, and is invariant under q1/qq\to 1/q when KX=0K_X=0. This is proposed as an analogue for Euler numbers of the Donaldson–Thomas conjecture that reduced partition functions are rational and, in the Calabi–Yau case, invariant under q1/qq\to1/q; the paper does not provide a resolution of this analogue.

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Wei-Ping Li and Zhenbo Qin, “On the Euler numbers of certain moduli spaces of curves and points”, arXiv:math/0508132 (2005).

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