2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/215402This is the second in a series of three papers in which we investigate the rational Chow ring of the stack consisting of nodal curves of genus. Here we define the basic classes: the classes of strata and the Mumford classes.24 pages, Latex2eAlgebraic Geometry14C15; 14H10; 14A20Tautological Classes of the Stack of Rational Nodal Curvestext