New topological recursion relations

2008/05/30 by Liu, Xiaobo, Pandharipande, Rahul
#Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0805.4829

Abstract

Simple boundary expressions for the k-th power of the cotangent line class on the moduli space of stable 1-pointed genus g curves are found for k >= 2g. The method is by virtual localization on the moduli space of maps to the projective line. As a consequence, nontrivial tautological classes in the kernel of the push-forward map associated to the irreducible boundary divisor of the moduli space of stable g+1 curves are constructed. The geometry of genus g+1 curves then provides universal equations in genus g Gromov-Witten theory. As an application, we prove all the Gromov-Witten identities conjectured recently by K. Liu and H. Xu.

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