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We continue the study of the rational Picard group of the moduli space of Hitchin's spectral covers started in P. Zograf's and D. Korotkin's work [11]. In the first part of the paper we expand the ``boundary'', ``Maxwell stratum'' and ``caustic'' divisors introduced in [11] via the set of standard generators of the rational Picard group. This generalizes the result of [11], where the expansion of the full discriminant divisor (which is a linear combination of the classes mentioned above) was obtained. In the second part of the paper we derive a formula that relates two Hodge classes in the rational Picard group of the moduli space of Hitchin's spectral covers.

Let $C$ be a smooth projective curve of genus $g\geq 3$ and let $\eta$ be an odd theta characteristic on it such that $h^0(C,\eta) = 1$. Pick a point $p$ from the support of $\eta$ and consider the one-dimensional linear system $|\eta + p|$. In general this linear system is base-point free and all its ramification points (i.e. ramification points of the corresponding branched cover $C\to\mathbb P^1\simeq \mathbb PH^0(C,\eta+p)$) are simple. We study the locus in the moduli space of odd spin curves where the linear system $|\eta + p|$ fails to have this general behavior. This locus splits into a union of three divisors: the first divisor corresponds to the case when $|\eta+p|$ has a base point, the second one corresponds to theta characteristics which are not reduced at $p$ (and therefore $|\eta + p|$ must have a triple point at $p$) and the third one corresponds to the case when $|\eta + p|$ has a triple point different from $p$. The second divisor was studied by G. Farkas and A. Verra in\cite{FARo} where its expansion in the rational Picard group was used to prove that the moduli space of odd spin curves is of general type for genus at least $12$. We call the first divisor a Base Point divisor and the third one a Caustic divisor (following Arnold terminology for Hurwitz spases). The objective of this paper is to expand these two divisors via the set of standard generators in the rational Picard group of the moduli space of odd spin curves.

The goal of the paper is to give an analytic proof of the formula of G. Farkas for the divisor class of spinors with multiple zeros in the moduli space of odd spin curves. We make use of the technique developed by Korotkin and Zograf that is based on properties of the Bergman tau function. We also show how the Farkas formula for the {\it theta-null} in the rational Picard group of the moduli space of even spin curves can be derived from classical theory of theta functions.