## The Michigan Mathematical Journal

### The Chow Ring of the Stack of Smooth Plane Cubics

#### Abstract

In this paper, we give an explicit presentation of the integral Chow ring of a stack of smooth plane cubics. We also determine some relations in the general case of hypersurfaces of any dimension and degree.

#### Article information

Source
Michigan Math. J., Volume 67, Issue 1 (2018), 3-29.

Dates
Revised: 12 October 2017
First available in Project Euclid: 19 January 2018

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.mmj/1516330968

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1307/mmj/1516330968

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3770851

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06965587

#### Citation

Fulghesu, Damiano; Vistoli, Angelo. The Chow Ring of the Stack of Smooth Plane Cubics. Michigan Math. J. 67 (2018), no. 1, 3--29. doi:10.1307/mmj/1516330968. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.mmj/1516330968

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