The weight 0 compactly supported Euler characteristic of moduli spaces of marked hyperelliptic curves
SEMINARS: HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
When: March 28, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Address:
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Speaker: Melody Chan - Brown University
Joint work with Madeline Brandt and Siddarth Kannan. We use moduli spaces of G-admissible covers and tropical geometry to give a sum-over-graphs formula for the weight-0 compactly supported Euler characteristic of the moduli spaces H_{g,n} of n-marked hyperelliptic curves of genus g, as a virtual representation of S_n. Computer calculations then enable fully explicit formulas for the above in small genus. My aim is to make this talk accessible to anyone with passing familiarity with M_g and its Deligne-Mumford compactification.