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An obstruction to smoothing stable maps

Algebraic Geometry 2026-02-05 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We describe an obstruction to smoothing stable maps in smooth projective varieties, which generalizes some previously known obstructions. Our obstruction comes from the non-existence of certain rational functions on the ghost components, with prescribed simple poles and residues.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2407.01845,
  title  = {An obstruction to smoothing stable maps},
  author = {Fatemeh Rezaee and Mohan Swaminathan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01845},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

16 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Selecta

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