Characteristic classes for curves of genus one
Abstract
We compute the cohomology of the stack M1 with coefficients in Z[1/2], and in low degrees with coefficients in Z. Cohomology classes on M1 give rise to characteristic classes, cohomological invariants of families of curves of genus one. We prove a number of vanishing results for those characteristic classes, and give explicit examples of families with non-vanishing characteristic classes.
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