Joint IAS/Princeton/Montreal/Paris/Tel-Aviv Symplectic Geometry Zoominar

Gromov-Witten invariants for a general target are rational-valued but not necessarily integer-valued. This is due to the contribution of curves with nontrivial automorphism groups. In 1997 Fukaya and Ono proposed a new method in symplectic geometry which can count curves with a trivial automorphism group. While ordinary Gromov-Witten invariants only use the orientation on the moduli spaces, this integer-valued counts are supposed to also use the (stable) complex structure on the moduli spaces. In this talk, I will present the recent joint work with Shaoyun Bai in which we rigorously defined the integer-valued Gromov-Witten type invariants in genus zero for a symplectic manifold. This talk is based on the preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02688.