Etymology

Gromov-Witten invariant

Today it means: A rational number that, in certain situations, counts pseudoholomorphic curves meeting prescribed conditions in a given symplectic manifold. They have applications in string theory. Full definition →

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Named after Mikhail Gromov and Edward Witten.

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