Tevelev degrees and Hurwitz moduli spaces

We interpret the degrees which arise in Tevelev’s study of scattering amplitudes in terms of moduli spaces of Hurwitz covers. Via excess intersection theory, the boundary geometry of the Hurwitz moduli space yields a simple recursion for the Tevelev degrees (together with their natural two parameter generalisation). We find exact solutions which specialise to Tevelev’s formula in his cases and connect to the projective geometry of lines and Castelnuovo’s classical count of $g^1_d$ ’s in other cases. For almost all values, the calculation of the two parameter generalisation of the Tevelev degree is new. A related count of refined Dyck paths is solved along the way.

Mixed QCD-EW corrections for Higgs leptonic decay via HW+W− vertex

We consider the two-loop corrections to the HW+W− vertex at order ααs. We construct a canonical basis for the two-loop integrals using the Baikov representation and the intersection theory. By solving the ϵ-form differential equations, we obtain fully analytic expressions for the master integrals in terms of multiple polylogarithms, which allow fast and accurate numeric evaluation for arbitrary configurations of external momenta. We apply our analytic results to the decay process H → νeeW, and study both the integrated and differential decay rates. Our results can also be applied to the Higgs production process via W boson fusion.

Fano schemes of complete intersections in toric varieties

We study Fano schemes $$\mathrm{F}_k(X)$$ F k ( X ) for complete intersections X in a projective toric variety $$Y\subset \mathbb {P}^n$$ Y ⊂ P n . Our strategy is to decompose $$\mathrm{F}_k(X)$$ F k ( X ) into closed subschemes based on the irreducible decomposition of $$\mathrm{F}_k(Y)$$ F k ( Y ) as studied by Ilten and Zotine. We define the “expected dimension” for these subschemes, which always gives a lower bound on the actual dimension. Under additional assumptions, we show that these subschemes are non-empty and smooth of the expected dimension. Using tools from intersection theory, we can apply these results to count the number of linear subspaces in X when the expected dimension of $$\mathrm{F}_k(X)$$ F k ( X ) is zero.

Explicit Deligne pairing

We give an explicit formula for the Deligne pairing for proper and flat morphisms $$f:X\rightarrow S$$ f : X → S of schemes, in terms of the determinant of cohomology. The whole construction is justified by an analogy with the intersection theory on non-singular projective algebraic varieties.

Nonproper intersection products and generalized cycles

We develop intersection theory in terms of the $${{\mathscr {B}}}$$ B -group of a reduced analytic space. This group was introduced in a previous work as an analogue of the Chow group; it is generated by currents that are direct images of Chern forms and it contains all usual cycles. However, contrary to Chow classes, the $${{\mathscr {B}}}$$ B -classes have well-defined multiplicities at each point. We focus on a $${{\mathscr {B}}}$$ B -analogue of the intersection theory based on the Stückrad–Vogel procedure and the join construction in projective space. Our approach provides global $${{\mathscr {B}}}$$ B -classes which satisfy a Bézout theorem and have the expected local intersection numbers. We also introduce $${{\mathscr {B}}}$$ B -analogues of more classical constructions of intersections using the Gysin map of the diagonal. These constructions are connected via a $${{\mathscr {B}}}$$ B -variant of van Gastel’s formulas. Furthermore, we prove that our intersections coincide with the classical ones on cohomology level.

Toroidal b-divisors and Monge–Ampère measures

We generalize the intersection theory of nef toric (Weil) b-divisors on smooth and complete toric varieties to the case of nef b-divisors on complete varieties which are toroidal with respect to a snc divisor. As a key ingredient we show the existence of a limit measure, supported on a balanced rational conical polyhedral space attached to the toroidal embedding, which arises as a limit of discrete measures defined via tropical intersection theory on the polyhedral space. We prove that the intersection theory of nef Cartier b-divisors can be extended continuously to nef toroidal Weil b-divisors and that their degree can be computed as an integral with respect to this limit measure. As an application, we show that a Hilbert–Samuel type formula holds for big and nef toroidal Weil b-divisors.

Correction to: Masur–Veech volumes and intersection theory on moduli spaces of Abelian differentials

A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-020-00969-4