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Gromov-Witten theory in degenerations
Abstract
I will discuss recent and ongoing work with Davesh Maulik that explains how Gromov-Witten invariants behave under simple normal crossings degenerations. The main outcome of the study is that if a projective manifold $X$ undergoes a simple normal crossings degeneration, the Gromov-Witten theory of $X$ is determined, via universal formulas, by the Gromov-Witten theory of the strata of the degeneration. Although the proof proceeds via logarithmic geometry, the statement involves only traditional Gromov-Witten cycles. Indeed, one consequence is a folklore conjecture of Abramovich-Wise, that logarithmic Gromov-Witten theory “does not contain new invariants”. I will also discuss applications of this to a conjecture of Levine and Pandharipande, concerning the relationship between Gromov-Witten theory and the cohomology of the moduli space of curves.
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