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The degree of the variety of rational ruled surfaces and Gromov-Witten invariants

Author: Cristina Martínez
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358 (2006), 2611-2624
MSC (2000): Primary 14N35, 14N10; Secondary 14C05, 14C15
Posted: September 22, 2005
MathSciNet review: 2204046
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Abstract: We compute the degree of the variety parametrizing rational ruled surfaces of degree in $\mathbb{P} ^{3}$ by relating the problem to Gromov-Witten invariants and Quantum cohomology.

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