New results of intersection numbers on moduli spaces of curves.

نویسندگان

  • Kefeng Liu
  • Hao Xu
چکیده

We present a series of results we obtained recently about the intersection numbers of tautological classes on moduli spaces of curves, including a simple formula of the n-point functions for Witten's tau classes, an effective recursion formula to compute higher Weil-Petersson volumes, several new recursion formulae of intersection numbers and our proof of a conjecture of Itzykson and Zuber concerning denominators of intersection numbers. We also present Virasoro and KdV properties of generating functions of general mixed kappa and psi intersections.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

دوره 104 35  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007