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Psi-floor diagrams and a Caporaso-Harris type recursion

Algebraic Geometry 2012-01-09 v2

Abstract

Floor diagrams are combinatorial objects which organize the count of tropical plane curves satisfying point conditions. In this paper we introduce Psi-floor diagrams which count tropical curves satisfying not only point conditions but also conditions given by Psi-classes (together with points). We then generalize our definition to relative Psi-floor diagrams and prove a Caporaso-Harris type formula for the corresponding numbers. This formula is shown to coincide with the classical Caporaso-Harris formula for relative plane descendant Gromov-Witten invariants. As a consequence, we can conclude that in our case relative descendant Gromov-Witten invariants equal their tropical counterparts.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1003.2067,
  title  = {Psi-floor diagrams and a Caporaso-Harris type recursion},
  author = {Florian Block and Andreas Gathmann and Hannah Markwig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.2067},
  year   = {2012}
}

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minor changes to match the published version

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