On computations of genus zero two-point descendant Gromov-Witten invariants

TL;DR

This paper introduces a method to compute genus zero two-point descendant Gromov-Witten invariants using one-point invariants, enabling both validation of previous results and new calculations.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel approach that simplifies the computation of two-point invariants by reducing them to one-point invariants, advancing computational techniques in Gromov-Witten theory.

Findings

Successfully recovers previous calculations by Zinger and Popa-Zinger.

Obtains new two-point descendant Gromov-Witten invariants.

Demonstrates the effectiveness of the method in computational applications.

Abstract

We present a method of computing genus zero two-point descendant Gromov-Witten invariants via one-point invariants. We apply our method to recover some of calculations of Zinger and Popa-Zinger, as well as to obtain new calculations of two-point descendant invariants.