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The high-dimensional cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures

  • Neil J. Fullarton

    Rice University, Houston, USA

  • Andrew Putman

    University of Notre Dame, USA
The high-dimensional cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures cover
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Abstract

We prove that the moduli space of curves with level structures has an enormous amount of rational cohomology in its cohomological dimension. As an application, we prove that the coherent cohomological dimension of the moduli space of curves is at least . Well known conjectures of Looijenga would imply that this is sharp.

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Neil J. Fullarton, Andrew Putman, The high-dimensional cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 22 (2020), no. 4, pp. 1261–1287

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/945