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Degree 2 curves on a degree d hypersurface in P^(2d+2)/3
One of the foundations of Gromov-Witten theory is the use (due to Kontsevich I think) of localization to calculate the number of degree $n$ curves on a general quintic 3-fold. When calculating the ...
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Is there a formula for the number of rational cuspidal curves in surfaces other than P^2?
Let $M$ be a two dimensional compact complex manifold and $A \in H_2(M, \mathbb{Z})$
a fixed homology class. Define a rational curve in $M$ to be $\textit{1-cuspidal}$ if the singularities of the ...
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How big can a family of pairwise intesecting affine spaces be?
I apologize if this question might seem to be a bit too elementary.
Let $\mathbb{P}^n$ be the projective space over $k$ - an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. Let $1\leq l\leq n-1$, and ...
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A funny factorization of the Jacobian coming from the lines on the Fermat cubic
Here is something which came up in my algebraic geometry class, and I'm wondering if it has a deeper explanation. Let $F(w,x,y,z) = w^3+x^3+y^3+z^3$ and let $X$ be the cubic surface in $\mathbb{P}^3$ ...
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Piercing of subspaces in a projective space?
The "piercing subspace" problem may be stated as follows:
There are given several subspaces in a projective space, rather non-intersecting.
Find an additional subspace of a prescribed dimension that ...
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How many ways can a snake lie?
This is essentially a question about counting nonintersecting short paths in a
cubic lattice, but with a twist. (One constraint that I did not make clear below
is that when to turn is already ...
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degree 7 rational curves through ten points in P4
This is a very classical flavoured question, and probabaly it is not difficult. I would like to know the shape of the space of rational degree 7 curves in $P^4$ that pass through 10 fixed points. By ...
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Curve of degree $d$ through $2d+1$ points in $\mathbb P^3$
It is known that a Hilbert scheme of degree $d$ curves in $\mathbb P^3$ can have dimension more than $4d$. But, does it imply that for some types of curves there are such a curve through any, say, ...
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Counting curves of degree 4 in $\mathbb{P}^{3}$
Let $p_1,...,p_8\in\mathbb{P}^{3}$ be points in linear general position. Then there exists a unique elliptic curve $C$ of degree $4$ passing through $p_1,...,p_8$. I am interested in what happens for ...
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Question on Ionel and Parker's paper: Relative Gromov Witten Invariants
In defining Gromov-Witten invariants using symplectic geometry, most of the trouble is to achieve transversality for moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic curves which are multiple covers of simple ...
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holomorphic embeddings of the sphere into the quintic in degree 2
Is there an explicit way of
classifying (with regard to their compatibiliy with $\Omega_+$ or $\Omega_-,$ see below)
the various families of
equivariant holomorphic embeddings from $\mathbb{CP}^1$ to ...
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Looking for a reference (on GW invariants of quintic)
1) Apparently, physicist can calculate the GW invariants of quintic CY 3-fold up to genus 51.
I am looking for a reference that has a table of these number for some low degrees (say up to degree 5) ...
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Nagata's conjecture in positive characteristic
For a $\mathbb C P^2$ is known a result: if through the generic points $p_1,p_2,\dots p_n$ with multiplicities $m_1,m_2\dots, m_n$ correspondingly a degree $d$ irreducible reduced curve passes then ...
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Ellipses touching a circle [closed]
This is a crosspost from math.stackexchange, where the question did not find an answer.
Given a circle and two points $A$, $B$ in the plane, how do I find an ellipse with focal points $A$ and $B$ ...
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Counting plane curves over various fields
Fix two integers $d$ and $g$. The number of genus $g$ and degree $d$ curves passing through $3d+g-1$ generic points on the complex projective plane is finite and doesn't depend on the choice of ...
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Chow ring of a $\mu_2$-gerbe
Suppose that $X$ is a stack, and $Y \to X$ is a $\mu_2$-gerbe. Is there any relationship between the integral Chow rings (in the sense of Edidin and Graham) of $X$ and $Y$?
(I assume they become ...
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“Degree” of a Fano Scheme of a projective variety
Consider subschemes $F$ of the Grassmannian $\mathbb{G}(k,n)$ satisfying the condition that each point of $\mathbb{P}^n$ is contained in only finitely many of the $k$-planes in $F$. Does this give us ...
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Conics in the quadric line complex
Hello, I apologize in advance if this question is misguided somehow, since my algebraic geometry is pretty shaky.
I am wondering if there is a way to understand all the conics in a generic quadric ...
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Riemann-Roch and dim of deformation space.
Let's consider curve $C\subset \mathbb P^n$ of degree $d$ and genus $g$. We want to calculate dimension of deformation space of $C$, i.e. $h^0(C,L)$ where $L$ is the normal bundle.
We can decompose ...
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Incidence Correspondence
A useful tool in Algebraic Geometry is the incidence correspondence. Loosely speaking, it is a set of the form $$\{(p,X): p \text{ a fixed dimension subscheme of } Y \text{ and } X \text{ a specific ...
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Is P^2 important in Kontsevich's recursion formula?
There is a famous recursion formula by Kontsevich to find the number of
genus zero degree $d$ curves in $\mathbb{CP}^2$ through $3d-1$ points.
My question is the following: Let $S$ be a complex ...
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Are there ways to make low degree checks for enumerative formulas except for curves in CP^2?
This is a concrete question in Enumerative geometry. Let $S$ be a compact
complex surface and $L\rightarrow S$ a holomorphic line bundle. Let
$$ \delta_d = \text{dim}~ \mathbb{P}(H^0(S,L^d)) $$
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Hurwitz numbers and Frobenius manifolds
Generating functions of the Gromov-Witten invariants (as well as some other important partition functions) are known to be related to the Frobenius manifold structure. Are there any Frobenius ...
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Multiple Hodge integrals and integrability
It is known that a generating function of the linear Hodge integrals is a tau function of the KP hierarchy, namely a one-parameter deformation of the Kontsevich-Witten tau-function (see Kazarian). ...
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Nagata's conjecture, Seshadri constant
What is it known now about Nagata's conjecture and Seshadri constant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagata%27s_conjecture_on_curves and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seshadri_constant) for toric ...
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Embedding $G(2,n)$ into $G(k,n)$
Let
$$M=\begin{pmatrix}
u_1 & u_2 & \ldots & u_n \\
v_1 & v_2 & \ldots & v_n \\
\end{pmatrix}$$
be a $2 \times n$ matrix. Define $\nu(M)$ to be the $k \times n$ matrix
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What is the simplest way to show that a section of a vector bundle is transverse to the zero set
Let $\mathcal{D} \approx \mathbb{P}^{\delta_d}$, be the space of homogeneous
degree $d$ polynomials in three variables $[X,Y,Z] \in \mathbb{P}^2$ upto scaling, where
$\delta_d = \frac{d(d+3)}{2}$. ...
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Thom polynomial for contact algebraic structures
Let's consider a algebraic contact structure $P$ on $\mathbb CP^3$
and a algebraic curve $C$ degree $d$ and genus $g$. Let's assume
that contact structure has degree $p$ (see
Polynomial contact ...
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Counting restricted polyominoes
I would like to count the polyominoes of $n$ squares that satisfy several restrictions:
Each is convex: every horizontal, or vertical line, meets the shape in either a single segment,
or not at all.
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How do the number of plane curves over a finite field of a fixed genus increase with the degree?
Let $k$ be a finite field. We define $N(d,g)$ to be the number of plane curves $f(x,y)$ defined over $k$ of degree $d$ with (geometric) genus $g$. If $D(d) := (d-1)(d-2)/2$ (the maximum possible ...
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Who streamlined Kontsevich's count of rational curves?
Let $N_d$ denote the number of rational curves in $\mathbf P^2$ passing through $3d-1$ points in general position. Maxim Kontsevich discovered a famous recursion for these numbers:
$$ N_d = \sum_{k+l ...
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Does any one understand the details of M Kazarian's work in enumerative geometry of $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2$ ?
I wanted to know if anyone understood the details of the paper
"Multisingularities, cobordisms, and enumerative geometry" available at the site
http://www.mi.ras.ru/~kazarian/.
In particular does ...
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Is anything known about the enumeration of degree d, genus g curves in CP^2 where g >1 ?
I wanted to know if there is something analogous to Kontsevich's recursion formula for
enumeration of genus zero curves in $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2$, for higher genus curves.
There is a
similar ...
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Up to projectivities, which configurations of four lines in $\mathbb{P}^3$ can one distinguish?
Background
I am interested in the projective classification of reduced curves of degree four in $\mathbb{P}^3(\mathbb{R})$ (and more generally of degree $n+1$ in $\mathbb{P}^n(\mathbb{R})$). More ...
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Computing 3 points Gromov-Witten invariants of the Grassmannian
This is from an exercise in Koch, Vainsencher - An invitation to quamtum cohomology.
Background
The exercise asks to compute the 3-points Gromov-Witten invariants of the Grassmannian $G = ...
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Chow Ring of Moduli Space of Abelian Varieties
Is there a good reference for the structure of the Chow ring of $\mathcal{A}_g$, the moduli space of complex principally polarized abelian varieties? More generally, references for the intersection ...
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Noether-Lefschetz locus in enumerative geometry.
It is well known that if you have a smooth quartic surface $X\subset \mathbb{P}^3$, it may or may not have lines in it. Indeed, $X$ has the following options, 64 (the maximal number), 32, 16, or none.
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Interaction of topology and the Picard group of Algebraic surfaces
It is well known that a smooth cubic surface $X\subset \mathbb{P}^3$ has exactly 27 lines in it. Furthermore, it is easy to check that Picard group $$Pic(X)\cong \mathbb{Z}^7$$ Here the generators are ...
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Classical Enumerative Geometry References
I want to start out by making this clear: I'm NOT looking for the modern proofs and rigorous statements of things.
What I am looking for are references for classical enumerative geometry, back before ...
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Higher Dimensional Gromov-Witten Theories
So, a basic set-up in modern enumerative geometry is that you have some object $X$ (say, a "nice" stack, for whatever definition of "nice" you need) and then you want to "count" the curve of genus $g$ ...
