Counting bitangents with stable maps

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2006.01.003MaRDI QIDQ860362zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Ayala, Renzo Cavalieri

Publication date 9 January 2007

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505139

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacesbitangent linesrational stable curvesrational stable maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35)

Abstract: This paper is an elementary introduction to the theory of moduli spaces of curves and maps. As an application to enumerative geometry, we show how to count the number of bitangent lines to a projective plane curve of degree $d$ by doing intersection theory on moduli spaces.

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