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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Oct 19, 2021

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: Zoom

@ 11am


Adam Afandi

University of Münster

Title

Polynomiality of Hyperelliptic Hodge Integrals

Abstract

Hyperelliptic Hodge integrals are a class of intersection numbers on the moduli space of hyperelliptic curves. Several mathematicians (Graber-Pandharipande, Cavalieri, Wise, Johnson-Pandharipande-Tseng) have investigated these intersection numbers in the past, and their work has made it apparent that hyperelliptic Hodge integrals display a remarkable amount of combinatorial structure and symmetry. However, these intersection numbers are difficult to compute in general. In this talk, I will explain some results about closed form expressions for hyperelliptic Hodge integrals, culminating in a structure theorem (polynomiality) for a very general class of Hodge integrals.

Algebraic Geometry

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