Toric degenerations of toric varieties and tropical curves (Q850989)

The paper under review concerns enumeration of rational curves on toric varieties. It extends to arbitrary dimension results of \textit{G. Mikhalkin} valid for toric surfaces [J. Am. Math. Soc. 18, No. 2, 313--377 (2005; Zbl 1092.14068)]. In short, the main result of the article (Theorem 8.3) equates the number of torically transverse genus \(0\) stable maps to complete toric varieties, under incidence conditions, with a count of tropical curves weighed by combinatorial multiplicities. (The former geometric count is enumerative, no multiplicities are involved; it is in general not a Gromov-Witten invariant.) The paper gives in fact a detailed correspondence between the geometric and tropical counts. Both are shown to enumerate maximally degenerate curves, with log structures, in the central fiber of an explicit degeneration of the toric variety (the tropical curves arising as the dual intersection graphs of the maximally degenerate curves).