A new proof of Faberʼs intersection number conjecture

Authors
Publication date 2011
Journal Advances in Mathematics
Volume | Issue number 228 | 1
Pages (from-to) 22-42
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
Abstract We give a new proof of Faberʼs intersection number conjecture concerning the top intersections in the tautological ring of the moduli space of curves Mg. The proof is based on a very straightforward geometric and combinatorial computation with double ramification cycles.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2011.05.009
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