Pencils of quadrics and Gromov–Witten–Welschinger invariants of $$\mathbb {C}P^3$$ C P 3

Abstract

We establish a formula for the Gromov–Witten–Welschinger invariants of \(\mathbb {C}P^3\) with mixed real and conjugate point constraints. The method is based on a suggestion by J. Kollar that, considering pencils of quadrics, some real and complex enumerative invariants of \(\mathbb {C}P^3\) could be computed in terms of enumerative invariants of \(\mathbb {C}P^1\times \mathbb {C}P^1\) and of elliptic curves.