Enumerative interpretation of Gromov–Witten invariants for the cubic degeneration and [?]2

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Let XX be either the Hirzebruch surface F2\mathbb F_2 or the surface B′B' obtained by blowing up six points on a conic, and let EE be its (−2)(-2)-curve. Let DD be an effective divisor class on XX with D≠0D\ne 0 and D≠ED\ne E, and let γ\gamma denote the class of a point. A stable map is understood as a map π:C→X\pi:C\to X from a curve CC, with pushforward class π∗[C]=D\pi_*[C]=D. Enumerative Gromov–Witten conjecture. The Gromov–Witten invariant

Ig,D(γ−KX⋅D+g−1)I_{g,D}\left(\gamma^{-K_X\cdot D+g-1}\right)

is the number of maps π:C→X\pi:C\to X such that CC has one component C0C_0 not mapping to EE, every other component C′C' maps isomorphically to EE, and C′C' intersects C∖C′‾\overline{C\setminus C'} at one point contained in C0C_0. This conjectural interpretation would extend the recursive computation of Gromov–Witten invariants from del Pezzo surfaces to the singular degeneration B′B' and, by deformation invariance, to cubic surfaces. The corresponding genus-zero interpretation for F2\mathbb F_2 was attributed to Kleiman and Abramovich; the general assertion in the stated form is not resolved by the supplied source.

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Ravi Vakil, “Genus g Gromov-Witten invariants of Del Pezzo surfaces: Counting plane curves with fixed multiple points”, arXiv:alg-geom/9709004 (1997).

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