Tropical refined curve counting with descendants
Patrick Kennedy-Hunt, Qaasim Shafi, Ajith Urundolil Kumaran

TL;DR
This paper establishes a $q$-refined tropical correspondence for higher genus descendant Gromov--Witten invariants with a $_g$ class in toric surfaces, linking algebraic geometry, tropical geometry, and integrable systems.
Contribution
It provides the first $q$-refined tropical correspondence theorem for higher genus descendant invariants with a $_g$ class, connecting tropical counts to algebraic geometry and integrable hierarchies.
Findings
Proves a $q$-refined tropical correspondence theorem for higher genus descendant invariants.
Shows deformation invariance of the tropical count using geometric methods.
Connects integrals against double ramification cycles to the non--commutative KdV hierarchy.
Abstract
We prove a -refined tropical correspondence theorem for higher genus descendant logarithmic Gromov--Witten invariants with a class in toric surfaces. Specifically, a generating series of such logarithmic Gromov--Witten invariants agrees with a -refined count of rational tropical curves satisfying higher valency conditions. As a corollary, we obtain a geometric proof of the deformation invariance of this tropical count. In particular, our results give an algebro--geometric meaning to the tropical count defined by Blechman and Shustin. Our strategy is to use the logarithmic degeneration formula, and the key new technique is to reduce to computing integrals against double ramification cycles and connect these integrals to the non--commutative KdV hierarchy.
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Taxonomy
TopicsPolynomial and algebraic computation · Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory · Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
