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Publications and source records attributed to Holger Spielberg.
We generalize the author's formula for Gromov-Witten invariants of symplectic toric manifolds (see math.AG/0006156) to those needed to compute the quantum product of more than two classes directly, i.e. involving the pull-back of the Poincaré dual of the point class in the Deligne-Mumford spaces $ \mathcal{M}_{0,m} $.
Hirzebruch surfaces provide an excellent example to underline the fact that in general symplectic manifolds, Gromov-Witten invariants might well count curves in the boundary components of the moduli space. We use this example to explain in detail that the counting argument given by Batyrev in "Quantum cohomology rings of toric manifolds" (Asterisque 218:9-34, 1993) does not work.
We study the fix point components of the big torus action on the moduli space of stable maps into a smooth projective toric variety, and apply Graber and Pandharipande's localization formula for the virtual fundamental class to obtain an explicit formula for the Gromov-Witten invariants of toric varieties. Using this formula we compute all genus-0 3-point invariants of the Fano manifold $¶(Ø_{¶^2}(2) \oplus 1)$, and we show for the (non-Fano) manifold $¶(Ø_{¶^2}(3) \oplus 1)$ that its quantum cohomology ring does not correspond to Batyrev's ring defined in \cite{bat93}.