
Tropical Intersection Theory and Gravitational Descendants
Intersections of tropical cycles and applications to enumerative geometry
Johannes Rau(Author)
Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften
Published on 11. February 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-3-8381-1428-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this publication a tropical intersection theory is established with analogue notions and tools as its algebro-geometric counterpart. The developed theory, interesting as a subfield of convex geometry on its own, shows many relations to the intersection theory of toric varieties and other fields. In the second chapter, tropical intersection theory is used to define and study tropical gravitational descendants (i.e. Gromov-Witten invariants with incidence and "Psi-class" factors). It turns out that many concepts of the classical Gromov-Witten theory such as the WDVV equations can be carried over to the tropical world.
More details
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
316 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8381-1428-6 (9783838114286)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Johannes Rau studied algebraic geometry at TU Kaiserslautern. Hereceived his diploma degree in 2005 and his Ph.D. degree in 2009under supervision of Andreas Gathmann. In fall 2009, Rau attendedthe program on tropical geometry at MSRI, Berkeley.