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We construct invariants for any closed semipositive symplectic manifold which count rational curves satisfying tangency constraints to a local divisor. More generally, we introduce invariants involving multibranched local tangency…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Dusa McDuff , Kyler Siegel

We obtain a formula for the number of genus one curves with a fixed complex structure of a given degree on a del-Pezzo surface that pass through an appropriate number of generic points of the surface. This enumerative problem is expressed…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Indranil Biswas , Ritwik Mukherjee , Varun Thakre

In this note we compute some enumerative invariants of real and complex projective spaces by means of some enriched graphs called floor diagrams.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-04 Erwan Brugallé , Grigory Mikhalkin

Toric geometry provides a bridge between the theory of polytopes and algebraic geometry: one can associate to each lattice polytope a polarized toric variety. In this thesis we explore this correspondence to classify smooth lattice…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Douglas Monsôres

We discuss, following Mikhalkin, Brugall\'e, and many others, the counting of curves on toric surfaces with prescribed genus, Newton polygon, and intersection pattern with the toric boundary divisor, both at assigned and unassigned points.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Thomas Dedieu

This paper contains an attempt to formulate rigorously and to check predictions in enumerative geometry of curves following from Mirror Symmetry. The main tool is a new notion of stable map. We give an outline of a contsruction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Kontsevich

We use the tropical geometry approach to compute absolute and relative Gromov-Witten invariants of complex surfaces which are $\CC P^1$-bundles over an elliptic curve. We also show that the tropical multiplicity used to count curves can be…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Thomas Blomme

We enumerate rational curves in toric surfaces passing through points and satisfying cross-ratio constraints using tropical and combinatorial methods. Our starting point is arXiv:1509.07453, where a tropical-algebraic correspondence theorem…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Christoph Goldner

In 2015, G.~Mikhalkin introduced a refined count for real rational curves in toric surfaces. The counted curves have to pass through some real and complex points located on the toric boundary of the surface, and the count is refined…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Thomas Blomme

For each $1\leq n\leq6$ we present formulas for the number of $n-$nodal curves in an $n-$dimensional linear system on a smooth, projective surface. This yields in particular the numbers of rational curves in the system of hyperplane…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Israel Vainsencher

We obtain a formula for the number of genus two curves with a fixed complex structure of a given degree on a del-Pezzo surface that pass through an appropriate number of generic points of the surface. This is done by extending the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Indranil Biswas , Ritwik Mukherjee , Varun Thakre

We define a quadratically enriched count of rational curves in a given divisor class passing through a collection of points on a del Pezzo surface $S$ of degree $\geq 3$ over a perfect field $k$ of characteristic $\neq 2,3.$ When $S$ is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Jesse Leo Kass , Marc Levine , Jake P. Solomon , Kirsten Wickelgren

Hirzebruch surfaces provide an excellent example to underline the fact that in general symplectic manifolds, Gromov-Witten invariants might well count curves in the boundary components of the moduli space. We use this example to explain in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Holger Spielberg

Since the first famous correspondence theorem by Mikhalkin appeared in 2005, tropical geometry has allowed a parallel treatment of real and complex counting problems. A prime example are the genus 0 Gromov-Witten invariants of the plane…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Andrés Jaramillo Puentes , Hannah Markwig , Sabrina Pauli , Felix Röhrle

We determine the gonality and the Clifford index for curves on a compact smooth toric surface. Moreover, it is shown that their gonality are computed by pencils on the ambient surface. From the geometrical view point, this means that the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Ryo Kawaguchi

Firstly, for a general graph, we find a recursion formula on the number of Hamiltonian cycles and one on cycles. By this result, we give some new polynomial invariants. Secondly, we give a condition to tell whether a polynomial defined by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Yi Bo

We show how to define and count lattice points in the moduli space $\modm_{g,n}$ of genus g curves with n labeled points. This produces a polynomial with coefficients that include the Euler characteristic of the moduli space, and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-31 Paul Norbury

In complex algebraic geometry, the problem of enumerating plane elliptic curves of given degree with fixed complex structure has been solved by R.Pandharipande using Gromov-Witten theory. In this article we treat the tropical analogue of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-17 Michael Kerber , Hannah Markwig

We describe a method for recursively calculating Gromov-Witten invariants of all blowups of the projective plane. This recursive formula is different from the recursive formulas due to G\"ottsche and Pandharipande in the zero genus case,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Brett Parker

Gromov-Witten invariants of a symplectic manifold are a count of holomorphic curves. We describe a formula expressing the GW invariants of a symplectic sum $X# Y$ in terms of the relative GW invariants of $X$ and $Y$. This formula has…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel