Enumeration of one-nodal rational curves in projective spaces

DOI10.1016/J.TOP.2003.10.003MaRDI QIDQ1876207zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aleksey Zinger

Publication date 16 August 2004

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0204236

zbMATH Keywords

Gromov-Witten invariantsnodal rational curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45)

Abstract: We give a formula computing the number of one-nodal rational curves that pass through an appropriate collection of constraints in a complex projective space. We combine the methods and results from three different papers.

Review text

This paper gives a formula for the number \(n_d^{(1)}(\mu)\) of one-nodal rational curves of degree \(d\) in the complex projective space of dimension \(n\geq 3\), which pass through a collection of linear subspaces \(\mu_1,\ldots, \mu_N\). This number coincides with the number \(n_{1,d}(\mu)\) of genus-\(1\) degree \(d\) curves which pass through the linear subspaces \(\mu_i\), and have a fixed generic complex structure on the normalization. Such numbers are partially computed in \textit{E. Ionel}, [Duke Math. J. 94, No. 2, 279--324 (1998; Zbl 0974.14038)]. Using the compactification of the moduli space of genus-\(1\) curves, and the fact that the nodal rational curves are in the boundary, the Gromov-Witten invariant [see \textit{Y. Ruan} and \textit{G. Tian}, J. Differ. Geom. 42, No. 2, 259--367 (1995; Zbl 0860.58005)] of degree \(d\) genus-\(1\) curves of the projective space is computed to equal \(n_d^{(1)}(\mu)\) plus a sum of contributions coming from terms involving chains of rational curves. Both the Gromov-Witten invariants, and the contributions from the chains of rational curves, are computable in terms of the numbers \(n_d(\mu)\) of degree \(d\) rational curves which pass through \(\mu_i\) (i.e., some genus-\(0\) Gromov-Witten invariants).

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