Faber's tautological-algebra conjecture for the moduli space of curves

Let Mg{\mathbf M}_g be the moduli space of smooth genus-gg curves, and let R(Mg){\cal R}^*({\mathbf M}_g) be its tautological algebra, with tautological classes κi\kappa_i. Faber's conjecture. The algebra R(Mg){\cal R}^*({\mathbf M}_g) behaves like the cohomology algebra of a nonsingular projective variety of dimension g2g-2: it vanishes in degrees greater than g2g-2, is one dimensional in degree g2g-2, and the pairing

Ri(Mg)×Rg2i(Mg)Rg2(Mg){\cal R}^{i}({\mathbf M}_g)\times {\cal R}^{g-2-i}({\mathbf M}_g)\longrightarrow {\cal R}^{g-2}({\mathbf M}_g)

is perfect; it also satisfies Hard Lefschetz and Hodge Positivity with respect to κ1\kappa_1. Moreover, the [g/3][g/3] classes κ1,,κ[g/3]\kappa_1,\ldots,\kappa_{[g/3]} generate the algebra with no relations in degrees at most [g/3][g/3], and there are explicit formulas for the proportionalities in degree g2g-2. The source notes that the generation assertion is proved there at the level of rational cohomology, while the remaining structural and proportionality assertions are presented as conjectural.

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Primary source

Shigeyuki Morita, “Structure of the mapping class groups of surfaces: a survey and a prospect”, arXiv:math/9911258 (1999).

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