The integral Chow ring of $\mathscr{M}_{0}(\mathbb{P}^r, 2)$

Abstract

We compute a presentation for the integral Chow rings of the moduli stacks of degree $2$ maps from smooth rational curves to projective space $\mathbb{P}^r$, as a quotient of a three-variable polynomial ring. The relations as $r$ varies have rich combinatorial structure: all non-trivial relations are encoded by two generating functions which are rational functions.