Relative node polynomials for plane curves

DOI10.1007/S10801-011-0337-XMaRDI QIDQ1759327zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Florian Block

Publication date 20 November 2012

Published in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5063

zbMATH Keywords

enumerative geometryfloor diagramGromov-Witten theorynode polynomialtangency conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We generalize the recent work of S. Fomin and G. Mikhalkin on polynomial formulas for Severi degrees. The degree of the Severi variety of plane curves of degree d and delta nodes is given by a polynomial in d, provided delta is fixed and d is large enough. We extend this result to generalized Severi varieties parametrizing plane curves which, in addition, satisfy tangency conditions of given orders with respect to a given line. We show that the degrees of these varieties, appropriately rescaled, are given by a combinatorially defined "relative node polynomial" in the tangency orders, provided the latter are large enough. We describe a method to compute these polynomials for arbitrary delta, and use it to present explicit formulas for delta <= 6. We also give a threshold for polynomiality, and compute the first few leading terms for any delta.

Review text

This paper deals with problems of counting plane curves of some degree and genus and satisfying point conditions and tangency conditions to a fixed line, also called relative Gromov-Witten invariants of the plane. It uses a technique developed by Fomin and Mikhalkin based on tropical geometry, namely to further degenerate tropical curves to purely combinatorial objects called floor diagrams. Floor diagrams have proved themselves useful in several occasions, e.g. when they were used by \textit{S. Fomin} and \textit{G. Milhakin} [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 12, No. 6, 1453--1496 (2010; Zbl 1218.14047)] to prove for a fixed number \(\delta\) of nodes the polynomiality of the function associating to a degree \(d\) the number of algebraic curves of degree \(d\) with \(\delta\) nodes and satisfying the appropriate number of point conditions. This paper non-trivially generalizes this result by proving the polynomiality of the function counting curves that satisfy not only point conditions, but also tangency conditions to a fixed line.

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