The enumerative geometry of rational and elliptic curves in projective space

DOI10.1515/CRLL.2000.094zbMATH Open0970.14029arXivalg-geom/9709007OpenAlexW2963641425MaRDI QIDQ4520951FDOQ4520951

Authors: R. Vakil 

Publication date: 19 December 2000

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the geometry of varieties parametrizing degree d rational and elliptic curves in P^n intersecting fixed general linear spaces and tangent to a fixed hyperplane H with fixed multiplicities along fixed general linear subspaces of H. As an application, we derive recursive formulas for the number of such curves when the number is finite. These recursive formulas require as ``seed data only one input: there is one line in P^1 through two points. These numbers can be seen as top intersection products of various cycles on the Hilbert scheme of degree d rational or elliptic curves in P^n, or on certain components of $mba{r}_0(P^n,d)$ or $mba{r}_1(P^n,d)$, and as such give information about the Chow ring (and hence the topology) of these objects. The formula can also be interpreted as an equality in the Chow ring (not necessarily at the top level) of the appropriate Hilbert scheme or space of stable maps. In particular, this gives an algorithm for counting rational and elliptic curves in P^n intersecting various fixed general linear spaces. (The genus 0 numbers were found earlier by Kontsevich-Manin, and the genus 1 numbers were found for n=2 by Ran and Caporaso-Harris, and independently by Getzler for n=3.)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9709007

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zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curvesmoduli spacesenumerative geometryintersection numbersGromov-Witten invariantsrational curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Plane and space curves (14H50) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Elliptic curves (14H52)

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