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 BB' 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 D0D\ne 0 and DED\ne E, and let γ\gamma denote the class of a point. A stable map is understood as a map π:CX\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(γKXD+g1)I_{g,D}\left(\gamma^{-K_X\cdot D+g-1}\right)

is the number of maps π:CX\pi:C\to X such that CC has one component C0C_0 not mapping to EE, every other component CC' maps isomorphically to EE, and CC' intersects CC\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 BB' 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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