In this paper, we provide a new approach to prove some weighted-blowup formulae for genus zero orbifold Gromov–Witten invariants. As a consequence, we show the invariance of symplectically rational connectedness with respect to weighted-blowup along positive centers. Furthermore, we use this method to give a new proof to the genus zero relative-orbifold correspondence of Gromov–Witten invariants.

For X a smooth projective variety and $D=D_1+\dotsb +D_n$ a simple normal crossing divisor, we establish a precise cycle-level correspondence between the genus $0$ local Gromov–Witten theory of the bundle $\oplus _{i=1}^n \mathcal {O}_X(-D_i)$ and the maximal contact Gromov–Witten theory of the multiroot stack $X_{D,\vec r}$. The proof is an implementation of the rank-reduction strategy. We use this point of view to clarify the relationship between logarithmic and orbifold invariants.

Gross, Hacking and Keel have constructed mirrors of log Calabi–Yau surfaces in terms of counts of rational curves. Using $q$-deformed scattering diagrams defined in terms of higher-genus log Gromov–Witten invariants, we construct deformation quantizations of these mirrors and we produce canonical bases of the corresponding non-commutative algebras of functions.

In this paper, we give a tropical method for computing Gromov–Witten type invariants of Fano manifolds of special type. This method applies to those Fano manifolds that admit toric degenerations to toric Fano varieties with singularities allowing small resolutions. Examples include (generalized) flag manifolds of type $\text{A}$ and some moduli space of rank two bundles on a genus two curve.

We show how some of the refined tropical counts of Block and Göttsche emerge from the wall-crossing formalism. This leads naturally to a definition of a class of putative $q$-deformed Gromov–Witten invariants. We prove that this coincides with another natural $q$-deformation, provided by a result of Reineke and Weist in the context of quiver representations, when the latter is well defined.

We analyze the relationship between two compactifications of the moduli space of maps from curves to a Grassmannian: the Kontsevich moduli space of stable maps and the Marian–Oprea–Pandharipande moduli space of stable quotients. We construct a moduli space which dominates both the moduli space of stable maps to a Grassmannian and the moduli space of stable quotients, and equip our moduli space with a virtual fundamental class. We relate the virtual fundamental classes of all three moduli spaces using the virtual push-forward formula. This gives a new proof of a theorem of Marian–Oprea–Pandharipande: that enumerative invariants defined as intersection numbers in the stable quotient moduli space coincide with Gromov–Witten invariants.

We give a construction of the moduli space of stable maps to the classifying stack Bμr of a cyclic group by a sequence of rth root constructions on . We prove a closed formula for the total Chern class of μr-eigenspaces of the Hodge bundle, and thus of the obstruction bundle of the genus-zero Gromov–Witten theory of stacks of the form [ℂN/μr]. We deduce linear recursions for genus-zero Gromov–Witten invariants.

We study the intersection theory on the moduli spaces of maps of $n$-pointed curves $f:(C,s_1,\dots,s_n)\to V$ which are stable with respect to the weight data $(a_1,\dots,a_n)$, $0\le a_i\le1$. After describing the structure of these moduli spaces, we prove a formula describing the way descendant invariants change under a wall crossing. As a corollary, we compute the weighted descendants in terms of the usual ones, i.e. for the weight data $(1,\dots,1)$, and vice versa.

Let X be a smooth projective variety. Using modified psi classes on the stack of genus-zero stable maps to X, a new associative quantum product is constructed on the cohomology space of X. When X is a homogeneous variety, this structure encodes the characteristic numbers of rational curves in X, and specialises to the usual quantum product upon resetting the parameters corresponding to the modified psi classes. For $X=\mathbb{P}^2$, the product is equivalent to that of the contact cohomology of Ernström and Kennedy.

We give elementary proofs of the main theorems about the (small) quantum cohomology of Grassmannians, including the quantum Giambelli and quantum Pieri formulas, the rim-hook algorithm, the presentation, and a recent theorem of Fulton and Woodward about the minimal q-power which appears in a product of two Schubert classes.