The integral Chow rings of moduli of Weierstrass fibrations

Abstract

We compute the Chow rings with integral coefficients of moduli stacks of minimal Weierstrass fibrations over the projective line. For each integer $N\ge 1$, there is a moduli stack ${\mathcal{W}}_N^{\min }$ parametrizing minimal Weierstrass fibrations with fundamental invariant $N$. Following work of Miranda and Park--Schmitt, we give a quotient stack presentation for each ${\mathcal{W}}_N^{\min }$. Using these presentations and equivariant intersection theory, we determine a complete set of generators and relations for each of the Chow rings. For the cases $N=1$ (respectively, $N=2$), parametrizing rational (respectively, K3) elliptic surfaces, we give a more explicit computation of the relations.

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