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 $N\geq 1$, there is a moduli stack $\mathcal{W}^{\mathrm{min}}_N$ parametrizing minimal Weierstrass fibrations with fundamental invariant $N$. Following work of Miranda and Park--Schmitt, we give a quotient stack presentation for each $\mathcal{W}^{\mathrm{min}}_N$. 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.