Virtual moduli cycles and Gromov-Witten invariants of general symplectic manifolds
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In this paper, we first give an intersection theory for moduli problems for nonlinear elliptic operators with certain precompact space of solutions in differential geometry. Then we apply the theory to constructing Gromov-Witten invariants for general symplectic manifolds.
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