Mathematics – Algebraic Geometry
Scientific paper
1997-09-05
Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry
LaTeX2e, 95 pages with 18 figures
Scientific paper
We study the geometry of varieties parametrizing degree d rational and elliptic curves in P^n intersecting fixed general linear spaces and tangent to a fixed hyperplane H with fixed multiplicities along fixed general linear subspaces of H. As an application, we derive recursive formulas for the number of such curves when the number is finite. These recursive formulas require as ``seed data'' only one input: there is one line in P^1 through two points. These numbers can be seen as top intersection products of various cycles on the Hilbert scheme of degree d rational or elliptic curves in P^n, or on certain components of $\mbar_0(P^n,d)$ or $\mbar_1(P^n,d)$, and as such give information about the Chow ring (and hence the topology) of these objects. The formula can also be interpreted as an equality in the Chow ring (not necessarily at the top level) of the appropriate Hilbert scheme or space of stable maps. In particular, this gives an algorithm for counting rational and elliptic curves in P^n intersecting various fixed general linear spaces. (The genus 0 numbers were found earlier by Kontsevich-Manin, and the genus 1 numbers were found for n=2 by Ran and Caporaso-Harris, and independently by Getzler for n=3.)
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