We prove the vanishing of the top Chern classes of the moduli of rank three stable vector bundles on a smooth Riemann surface.
More precisely, the Chern class ci for i > 6g − 5 of the moduli spaces of rank three vector bundles of degree one and two on a
genus g smooth Riemann surface all vanish. This generalizes the rank two case, conjectured by Newstead and Ramanan and proved
by Gieseker.