Authors

Jingchen Niu

Type

Text

Type

Dissertation

Advisor

Zinger, Aleksey | Starr, Jason | Plamenevskaya, Olga | Rocek, Martin.

Date

2016-12-01

Keywords

Mathematics

Department

Department of Mathematics

Language

en_US

Source

This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76380

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

The moduli spaces of pseudo-holomorphic maps into an almost Kahler manifold are fundamental to Gromov-Witten theory. It has been speculated since the early days of Gromov-Witten theory that these moduli spaces contain natural closed subspaces, whenever the genus is positive, that also give rise to curve-counting invariants. This speculation was confirmed in genus 1 over a decade ago. In this dissertation, we describe a natural subspace of every moduli space of genus 2 pseudo-holomorphic maps that has strata of the correct virtual dimension to give rise to curve-counting invariants. We establish most of the convergence statements for sequences of such maps needed to show that this subspace is closed. | 87 pages

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