Tropical descendant Gromov-Witten invariants

Curves in algebraic geometry (14H99) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20)

Abstract: We define tropical Psi-classes on the moduli space of rational tropical curves in R^2 and consider intersection products of Psi-classes and pull-backs of evaluations on this space. We show a certain WDVV equation which is sufficient to prove that tropical numbers of curves satisfying certain Psi- and evaluation conditions are equal to the corresponding classical numbers. We present an algorithm that generalizes Mikhalkin's lattice path algorithm and counts rational plane tropical curves satisfying certain Psi- and evaluation conditions.

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The authors introduce the tropical version of rational descending Gromov-Witten invariants. These tropical invariants can be computed with a certain lattice path count, similar to \textit{G. Mikhalkin}'s one [J. Am. Math. Soc. 18, 313--377 (2005; Zbl 1092.14068)], and satisfy a certain WDVV equation (thus being equal to their conventional counterparts under some mild restrictions). This provides a new way to compute descending Gromov-Witten invariants. A similar tropical analogue of descending Gromov-Witten invariants was studied in [\textit{M. Gross}, Mirror symmetry for \(\mathbb P^2\) and tropical geometry, preprint \url{arXiv:0903.1378} (2009)].

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