# zbMATH — the first resource for mathematics

Tropical fans and the moduli spaces of tropical curves. (English) Zbl 1169.51021
Author’s abstract: We give a rigorous definition of tropical fans (the ‘local building blocks for tropical varieties’) and their morphisms. For a morphism of tropical fans of the same dimension we show that the number of inverse images (counted with suitable tropical multiplicities) of a point in the target does not depend on the chosen point; a statement that can be viewed as one of the important first steps of tropical intersection theory. As an application we consider the moduli spaces of rational tropical curves (both abstract and in some $$\mathbb R^r$$) together with the evaluation and forgetful morphisms. Using our results this gives new, easy and unified proofs of various tropical independence statements, e.g. of the fact that the numbers of rational tropical curves (in any $$\mathbb R^r$$) through given points are independent of the points.

##### MSC:
 51M20 Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces 14N35 Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) 14N10 Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry
Full Text:
##### References:
 [1] doi:10.1515/advg.2004.023 · Zbl 1065.14071 · doi:10.1515/advg.2004.023 [2] doi:10.1007/s00208-007-0092-4 · Zbl 1128.14040 · doi:10.1007/s00208-007-0092-4 [3] doi:10.1016/j.jsc.2006.02.004 · Zbl 1121.14051 · doi:10.1016/j.jsc.2006.02.004 [4] doi:10.1016/j.aim.2007.08.004 · Zbl 1131.14057 · doi:10.1016/j.aim.2007.08.004 [5] doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-06-13511-1 · Zbl 1105.14073 · doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-06-13511-1 [6] doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-05-00477-7 · Zbl 1092.14068 · doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-05-00477-7 [8] doi:10.1006/aama.2001.0759 · Zbl 0995.92035 · doi:10.1006/aama.2001.0759
This reference list is based on information provided by the publisher or from digital mathematics libraries. Its items are heuristically matched to zbMATH identifiers and may contain data conversion errors. It attempts to reflect the references listed in the original paper as accurately as possible without claiming the completeness or perfect precision of the matching.