Chen–Ruan Cohomology of and
In this work we compute the Chen–Ruan cohomology of the moduli spaces of smooth and stable -pointed curves of genus . In the first part of the paper we study and describe stack theoretically the twisted sectors of and . In the second part, we study the orbifold intersection theory of . We suggest a definition for an orbifold tautological ring in genus , which is a subring of both the Chen–Ruan cohomology and of the stringy Chow ring.