Journal of Algebraic Geometry

Author(s): Ezra Getzler; Rahul Pandharipande
Journal: J. Algebraic Geom. 15 (2006), 709-732.
Posted: May 2, 2006
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Abstract: We calculate the Betti numbers of the coarse moduli space of stable maps of genus 0 to projective space, using a generalization of the Legendre transform.

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Ezra Getzler
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-2730
Email: getzler@northwestern.edu

Rahul Pandharipande
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1000
Email: rahulp@math.princeton.edu

PII: S 1056-3911(06)00425-5
Received by editor(s): February 26, 2005
Posted: May 2, 2006

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