Twisted cubic curves in the Segre variety (Q5965095)

The authors study the compactification of the space of twisted cubics of three-degree \((1,1,1)\) in the Segre variety \(X = \mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1\) in the stable sheaves space \(\mathbf{S}\). They show that it is a smooth, irreducible, rational variety of dimension \(6\) with Poincaré polynomial \(q^6+3q^5+7q^4+10q^3+7q^2+3q+1\). Moreover, \(\mathbf{S}\) is isomorphic to the compactification in the stable maps space \(\mathbf{M}\) or the Hilbert scheme \(\mathbf{H}\).