Degenerations of complete collineations and geometric Tevelev degrees of $\mathbb{P}^r$

Author:

Carl Lian

Keyword:

Mathematics, Algebraic Geometry, Algebraic Geometry (math.AG), Combinatorics (math.CO)

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date:

2023-07-30 16:00:00

Abstract

We consider the problem of enumerating maps $f$ of degree $d$ from a fixed general curve $C$ of genus $g$ to $\mathbb{P}^r$ satisfying incidence conditions of the form $f(p_i)\in X_i$, where $p_i\in C$ are general points and $X_i\subset\mathbb{P}^r$ are general linear spaces. We give a complete answer in the case where the $X_i$ are points, where the counts, the ``Tevelev degrees'' of $\mathbb{P}^r$, were previously known only when $r=1$, when $d$ is large compared to $r,g$, or virtually in Gromov-Witten theory. We also give a complete answer in the case $r=2$ with arbitrary incidence conditions. Our main approach studies the behavior of complete collineations under various degenerations. We expect the technique to have further applications.

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