Relative Gromov-Witten and maximal contact conics
arXiv:2401.08487 · doi:10.1007/s00013-025-02169-z
Abstract
We discuss some properties of the relative Gromov--Witten invariants counting rational curves with maximal contact order at one point. We compute the number of Cayley's sextactic conics to any smooth plane curve . In particular, we compute the contribution, from double covers of inflectional lines, to a certain degree relative Gromov--Witten invariant relative to .
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