31 research outputs found
Socle pairings on tautological rings
We study some aspects of the pairing on the tautological ring of
, the moduli space of genus stable curves of compact type. We
consider pairing kappa classes with pure boundary strata, all tautological
classes supported on the boundary, or the full tautological ring. We prove that
the rank of this restricted pairing is equal in the first two cases and has an
explicit formula in terms of partitions, while in the last case the rank
increases by precisely the rank of the pairing on
the tautological ring of .Comment: 18 pages, 1 figure; v3: journal version; v2: minor revisions to
sections 1.1 and 4.1, results unchange
Sequences with small subsum sets
AbstractA conjecture of Gao and Leader, recently proved by Sun, states that if X=(xi)i=1n is a sequence of length n in a finite abelian group of exponent n, then either some subsequence of X sums to zero or the set of all sums of subsequences of X has cardinality at least 2n−1. This conjecture turns out to be a simple consequence of a theorem of Olson and White; we investigate generalizations that are not implied by this theorem. In particular, we prove the following result: if X=(xi)i=1n is a sequence of length n, the terms of which generate a finite abelian group of rank at least 3, then either some subsequence of X sums to zero or the set of all sums of subsequences of X has cardinality at least 4n−5
Face vectors of subdivided simplicial complexes
Brenti and Welker have shown that for any simplicial complex X, the face
vectors of successive barycentric subdivisions of X have roots which converge
to fixed values depending only on the dimension of X. We improve and generalize
this result here. We begin with an alternative proof based on geometric
intuition. We then prove an interesting symmetry of these roots about the real
number -2. This symmetry can be seen via a nice algebraic realization of
barycentric subdivision as a simple map on formal power series in two
variables. Finally, we use this algebraic machinery with some geometric
motivation to generalize the combinatorial statements to arbitrary subdivision
methods: any subdivision method will exhibit similar limit behavior and
symmetry. Our techniques allow us to compute explicit formulas for the values
of the limit roots in the case of barycentric subdivision.Comment: 13 pages, final version, appears in Discrete Mathematics 201
Holomorphic anomaly equations and the Igusa cusp form conjecture
Let be a K3 surface and let be an elliptic curve. We solve the
reduced Gromov-Witten theory of the Calabi-Yau threefold for all
curve classes which are primitive in the K3 factor. In particular, we deduce
the Igusa cusp form conjecture.
The proof relies on new results in the Gromov-Witten theory of elliptic
curves and K3 surfaces. We show the generating series of Gromov-Witten classes
of an elliptic curve are cycle-valued quasimodular forms and satisfy a
holomorphic anomaly equation. The quasimodularity generalizes a result by
Okounkov and Pandharipande, and the holomorphic anomaly equation proves a
conjecture of Milanov, Ruan and Shen. We further conjecture quasimodularity and
holomorphic anomaly equations for the cycle-valued Gromov-Witten theory of
every elliptic fibration with section. The conjecture generalizes the
holomorphic anomaly equations for ellliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds predicted by
Bershadsky, Cecotti, Ooguri, and Vafa. We show a modified conjecture holds
numerically for the reduced Gromov-Witten theory of K3 surfaces in primitive
classes.Comment: 68 page