The tautological rings of the Kontsevich-Manin spaces of stable maps.”

Seminar: 
Algebraic Geometry
Event time: 
Monday, April 18, 2005 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
215
Speaker: 
Dragos Oprea
Speaker affiliation: 
MIT
Event description: 

We introduce the tautological rings of the moduli spaces of genus 0 stable
maps to flag varieties. We show that the cohomology and Chow groups of
these moduli spaces are spanned by the tautological classes. Moreover, we
indicate a procedure of obtaining relations between the tautological
classes; this recovers known reconstruction theorems of Gromov-Witten
invariants.