Generating functions for the number of curves on Abelian surfaces

Details Generating functions for the number of curves on Abelian surfaces Generating functions for the number of curves on Abelian surfaces

1998-02-27

arxiv.org/abs/math/9802125v1

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Algebraic Geometry

16 pages; LaTeX2e

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Let X be an Abelian surface and C a holomorphic curve in X representing a primitive homology class. The space of genus g curves in the class of C is g dimensional. We count the number of such curves that pass through g generic points and we also count the number of curves in the fixed linear system |C| passing through g-2 generic points. These two numbers, (defined appropriately) only depend on n and g where 2n=C^2+2-2g and not on the particular X or C (n is the number of nodes when a curve is nodal and reduced). Gottsche conjectured that certain quasi-modular forms are the generating functions for the number of curves in a fixed linear system. Our theorem proves his formulas and shows that (a different) modular form also arises in the problem of counting curves without fixing a linear system. We use techniques that were developed in our earlier paper for similar questions on K3 surfaces. The techniques include Gromov-Witten invariants for families and a degeneration to an elliptic fibration. One new feature of the Abelian surface case is the presence of non-trivial Pic^0(X). We show that for any surface S the cycle in the moduli space of stable maps defined by requiring that the image of the map lies in a fixed linear system is homologous to the cycle defined by requiring the image of the map meets b_1 generic loops in S representing the generators of the first integral homology group (mod torsion).

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