Witten's top Chern class via K-theory

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The Witten top Chern class is the crucial cohomology class needed to state a conjecture by Witten relating the Gelfand-Dikii hierarchies to higher spin curves. In math.AG/0011032, Polishchuk and Vaintrob provide an algebraic construction of such a class. We present a more straightforward construction via K-theory. In this way we short-circuit the passage through bivariant intersection theory and the use of MacPherson's graph construction. Furthermore, we show that the Witten top Chern class admits a natural lifting to the K-theory ring.
25 pages, revised version, to appear in J. Algebraic Geom

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Algebraic Geometry, 14H60 (Primary) 14H10 (Secondary)

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/99820

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https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0210398
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