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Gromov-Witten invariant
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Etymology
Named after Mikhail Gromov and Edward Witten.
Noun
Gromov-Witten invariant
en math A rational number that, in certain situations, counts pseudoholomorphic curves meeting prescribed conditions in a given symplectic manifold. They have applications in string theory.
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