Bend, break and count

DOI10.1007/BF02810680MaRDI QIDQ1806258zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ziv Ran

Publication date 17 February 2000

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9704004

zbMATH Keywords

del Pezzo surfacecodimension 1 boundaryenumerating rational curves on a surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10)

Abstract: We give a 'recursive' formula (in terms of reducible limits) for counting rational curves on a variety moving in any sufficiently large and well-behaved family. Our approach is completely elementary and makes no use of moduli spaces for maps or the like.

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Cites work

• Enumerative geometry of singular plane curves
• Notes on stable maps and quantum cohomology
• On the Severi problem
• On the variety of rational space curves

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(4)

• Rational cuspidal curves on del-Pezzo surfaces
• On the variety of rational space curves
• The quantum cohomology of blow-ups of \(\mathbb{P}^2\) and enumerative geometry
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2217256 (Why is no real title available?)

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