Let N denote the plane ℝ2 or the 2-sphere S2. In this paper, we determine the 5-tuples of integers (g,d,i,c,n) such that there exists a degree d stable map Σg → N whose singular point set consists of i connected components, c cusps, and n nodes, where Σg is the standard genus g surface.
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