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The "standard" theory concerns itself with moduli spaces of connected curves, and gives rise to Gromov-Witten invariants: see for example, McDuff—Salamon [15], Ruan—Tian [20, 21]. However, Taubes's curves arise as zero sets of sections and so need not be connected. These notes are in...