English

Refined enumerative invariants and mixed Welschinger invariants

Algebraic Geometry 2026-03-13 v1

Abstract

For real toric surfaces and conjugation invariant point conditions with all conjugate pairs on the boundary divisors, we prove that the signed count of real curves of arbitrary genus in the linear system through the given points is invariant under variation of the points, provided the reduced tropicalization is in general position. The proof is based on a new relative refined tropical invariant, which is invariant under variation of the point conditions and specializes at y1y\to -1 to this signed count; at y1y\to 1 the same invariant recovers the count of complex curves with prescribed tangency to the boundary. We extend the invariant to allow arbitrary tangency orders along the boundary and identify its y1y\to 1 limit with the corresponding complex count. Finally, we show that in positive genus the signed real count is not invariant when conjugate pairs are allowed in the interior, even under strong genericity assumptions.

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@article{arxiv.2603.11209,
  title  = {Refined enumerative invariants and mixed Welschinger invariants},
  author = {Eugenii Shustin and Uriel Sinichkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.11209},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

32 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2408.08420

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:15:24.432Z