{ "id": "1703.03049", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-03-08T21:56:21.000Z", "updated": "2017-03-08T21:56:21.000Z", "title": "Toward an enumerative geometry with quadratic forms", "authors": [ "Marc Levine" ], "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "We develop various aspects of classical enumerative geometry, including Euler characteristics and formulas for counting degenerate fibres in a pencil, with the classical numerical formulas being replaced by identitites in the Grothendieck-Witt group of quadratic forms with coefficients in the base-field.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-03-08T21:56:21.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "quadratic forms", "grothendieck-witt group", "counting degenerate fibres", "euler characteristics", "classical numerical formulas" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }