The Symplectic Sum Formula for Gromov-Witten Invariants
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In the symplectic category there is a `connect sum' operation that glues symplectic manifolds by identifying neighborhoods of embedded codimension two submanifolds. This paper establishes a formula for the Gromov-Witten invariants of a symplectic sum Z=X#Y in terms of the relative GW invariants of X and Y. Several applications to enumerative geometry are given.
AMS-Latex, 66 pages with 3 eps figures (typos fixed in the introduction)
AMS-Latex, 66 pages with 3 eps figures (typos fixed in the introduction)