The contraction morphism between maps and quasimaps to toric varieties

Abstract

Given $X$ a smooth projective toric variety, we construct a morphism from a closed substack of the moduli space of stable maps to $X$ to the moduli space of quasimaps to $X$. If $X$ is Fano, we show that this morphism is surjective. The construction relies on the notion of degree of a quasimap at a base-point, which we define. We show that a quasimap is determined by its regular extension and the degree of each of its basepoints.