Degenerations of surface scrolls and the Gromov-Witten invariants of Grassmannians

2004/07/14 by Izzet Coskun, Coskun, Izzet
Mathematics · #14N15 #14N25 #14N35 #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics #math.AG #msc:14N15 #msc:14N25 #msc:14N35

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0407253

40 pages, 6 figures

arxiv created 2004/07/14 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We describe an algorithm for computing certain characteristic numbers of surface scrolls using degenerations. As a corollary we obtain a method for computing the corresponding Gromov-Witten invariants of Grassmannians.

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