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The Gromov-Witten invariants of symplectic manifolds

Algebraic Geometry 2009-09-25 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We study the fix point components of the big torus action on the moduli space of stable maps into a smooth projective toric variety, and apply Graber and Pandharipande's localization formula for the virtual fundamental class to obtain an explicit formula for the Gromov-Witten invariants of toric varieties. Using this formula we compute all genus-0 3-point invariants of the Fano manifold (\O2(2)1)\P(\O_{\P^2}(2) \oplus 1), and we show for the (non-Fano) manifold (\O2(3)1)\P(\O_{\P^2}(3) \oplus 1) that its quantum cohomology ring does not correspond to Batyrev's ring defined in \cite{bat93}.

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@article{arxiv.math/0006156,
  title  = {The Gromov-Witten invariants of symplectic manifolds},
  author = {Holger Spielberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0006156},
  year   = {2009}
}

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