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Contact Cohomology of the Projective Plane

alg-geom 2016-08-15 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We construct an associative ring which is a deformation of the quantum cohomology ring of the projective plane. Just as the quantum cohomology encodes the incidence characteristic numbers of rational plane curves, the contact cohomology encodes the tangency characteristic numbers.

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@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9703013,
  title  = {Contact Cohomology of the Projective Plane},
  author = {Lars Ernström and Gary Kennedy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9703013},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages AMSLaTeX v 2e with xy-pic v 3.2; minor revison