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Enumeration of Rational Curves Via Torus Actions

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This paper contains an attempt to formulate rigorously and to check predictions in enumerative geometry of curves following from Mirror Symmetry.

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  1. Dept. of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Maxim Kontsevich

  2. Max-Planck-Institut Für Mathematik, Bonn and University of California, Berkeley, USA

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  1. Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1018 TV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Robbert H. Dijkgraaf , Carel F. Faber  & Gerard B. M. van der Geer ,  & 

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Kontsevich, M. (1995). Enumeration of Rational Curves Via Torus Actions. In: Dijkgraaf, R.H., Faber, C.F., van der Geer, G.B.M. (eds) The Moduli Space of Curves. Progress in Mathematics, vol 129. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4264-2_12

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