The Moduli Space of Curves and Its Tautological Ring
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The moduli space of curves has proven itself a central object in geometry. The past decade has seen substantial progress in understanding the moduli space of curves, involving ideas, for example, from geometry (algebraic, symplectic, and differential), physics, topology, and combinatorics. Many of the new ideas are related to the tautological ring of the moduli space, a subring of the cohomology (or Chow) ring that (i) seems highly structured, and (ii) seems to include all the geometrically natural classes.
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