{ "id": "1407.1260", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-07-04T15:06:19.000Z", "updated": "2014-07-04T15:06:19.000Z", "title": "Introduction to Gromov-Witten Theory", "authors": [ "Simon Rose" ], "comment": "21 Pages", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "The goal of these notes is to provide an informal introduction to Gromov-Witten theory with an emphasis on its role in counting curves in surfaces. These notes are based on a talk given at the Fields Institute during a week-long conference aimed at introducing graduate students to the subject which took place during the thematic program on Calabi-Yau Varieties: Arithmetic, Geometry, and Physics.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-07-04T15:06:19.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14N35", "14N10" ], "keywords": [ "gromov-witten theory", "informal introduction", "fields institute", "calabi-yau varieties", "introducing graduate students" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 21, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1407.1260R" } } }