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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}
}

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33 pages, 14 Postscript figures; minor changes to fit the published version