For a target variety $X$ and a nodal curve $C$, we introduce a one-parameter stability condition, termed $\epsilon$-admissibility, for maps from nodal curves to $X\times C$. If $X$ is a point, $\epsilon$-admissibility interpolates between moduli spaces of stable maps to $C$ relative to some fixed points and moduli spaces of admissible covers with arbitrary ramifications over the same fixed points and simple ramifications elsewhere on $C$. Using Zhou's entangled tails, we prove wall-crossing formulas relating invariants for different values of $\epsilon$. If $X$ is a surface, we use this wall-crossing in conjunction with author's quasimap wall-crossing to show that the relative Pandharipande-Thomas/Gromov-Witten correspondence of $X\times C$ and Ruan's extended crepant resolution conjecture of the pair $X^{ [n]}$ and $[X^{ (n)}]$ are equivalent up to explicit wall-crossings. We thereby prove the crepant resolution conjecture for 3-point genus-0 invariants in all classes, if $X$ is a toric del Pezzo surface.

Categories: math.AG

Gromov-Witten/Hurwitz wall-crossing