Tropical descendant Gromov-Witten invariants
Algebraic Geometry
2009-11-29 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
We define tropical Psi-classes on the moduli space of rational tropical curves in R^2 and consider intersection products of Psi-classes and pull-backs of evaluations on this space. We show a certain WDVV equation which is sufficient to prove that tropical numbers of curves satisfying certain Psi- and evaluation conditions are equal to the corresponding classical numbers. We present an algorithm that generalizes Mikhalkin's lattice path algorithm and counts rational plane tropical curves satisfying certain Psi- and evaluation conditions.
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@article{arxiv.0809.1102,
title = {Tropical descendant Gromov-Witten invariants},
author = {Hannah Markwig and Johannes Rau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1102},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
33 pages, 14 Postscript figures; minor changes to fit the published version