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Tangents to the Nodal Cubic

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Given a plane nodal cubic D, how many straight lines are there meeting D in exactly one smooth point? The question can be treated using classical techniques in algebraic geometry which return the correct answer (three). However, just a slight generalisation of this exercise (e.g. the enumeration of higher degree curves maximally tangent to D) renders standard techniques essentially useless. I will introduce Gromov—Witten theory as a framework which allows an efficient discussion of (an obscured version of) such generalised tangent counts and for the nodal cubic we will actually get an explicit formula for these numbers.

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