We advertise elementary symmetric polynomials ei as the natural basis for generating series Ag,n of intersection numbers of ψ-classes on the moduli space of stable curves of genus g with n marked
points. Closed formulae for Ag,n are known for genera 0 and 1 — this approach provides formulae for g = 2, 3, 4, together with an algorithm to compute the formula for any g.
The claimed naturality of the ei basis relies in the unexpected vanishing of some coefficients with a clear pattern. As an application of the conjecture, we find new integral representations of Ag,n, which recover expressions for the Weil-Petersson volumes in terms of Bessel functions.
