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ch -- Chern character of the Hodge bundle

Synopsis

Description

This is an element in the ring created by hodgeRing. It is the $a$-th graded part of the Chern character of the Hodge bundle on ${\bar M}_{g,n}$.

Examples

Here is a simple example which calculates $\int_{{\bar M}_{1,1}} ch_1$.

i1 : R = hodgeRing (1, 1);
i2 : ch_1

o2 = ch
       1

o2 : R
i3 : integral(1, 1, ch_1)
warning: clearing value of symbol tempCh to allow access to subscripted variables based on it
       : debug with expression   debug 1257   or with command line option   --debug 1257

      1
o3 = --
     24

o3 : R

See also

For the programmer

The object ch is an indexed variable table.