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On the descendent Gromov-Witten theory of a K3 surface

Algebraic Geometry 2025-12-10 v2

Abstract

We study the reduced descendent Gromov-Witten theory of K3 surfaces in primitive curve classes. We present a conjectural closed formula for the stationary theory, which generalizes the Bryan-Leung formula. We also prove a new recursion that allows to remove descendent insertions of 11 in many instances. Together this yields an efficient way to compute a large class of invariants (modulo the conjecture on the stationary part). As a corollary we conjecture a surprising polynomial structure which underlies the Gromov-Witten invariants of the K3 surface.

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@article{arxiv.2308.09074,
  title  = {On the descendent Gromov-Witten theory of a K3 surface},
  author = {Georg Oberdieck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.09074},
  year   = {2025}
}

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