Welschinger invariants of small non-toric del Pezzo surfaces (Q1940821)

The authors have studied Welschinger invariants of real toric Del Pezzo surfaces using tropical methods and a Caporaso-Harris degeneration technique [\textit{I. Itenberg} et al., Comment. Math. Helv. 84, No. 1, 87--126 (2009; Zbl 1184.14092)]. In this work, they consider non-toric Del Pezzo surfaces. Since tropical methods are in principle limited to the toric situation, they have to find a way to overcome this problem. They still rely on tropical methods by blowing down exceptional divisors and carefully studying the relation of the curves to count. The authors derive interesting applications, e.g., results about the asymptotic behaviour of Welschinger invariants when compared to Gromov-Witten invariants.