The Picard group of the moduli space of r-Spin Riemann surfaces

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Abstract

An r-Spin Riemann surface is a Riemann surface equipped with a choice of rth root of the (co)tangent bundle. We give a careful construction of the moduli space (orbifold) of r-Spin Riemann surfaces, and explain how to establish a Madsen–Weiss theorem for it. This allows us to prove the “Mumford conjecture” for these moduli spaces, but more interestingly allows us to compute their algebraic Picard groups (for g≥10, or g≥9 in the 2-Spin case). We give a complete description of these Picard groups, in terms of explicitly constructed line bundles.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftAdvances in Mathematics
Vol/bind231
Udgave nummer1
Sider (fra-til)482-515
ISSN0001-8708
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 10 sep. 2012

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