I'm working on a project and I've used the Picard-Fuchs equation at a maximally unipotent monodromy point for a certain 1-dimensional family of Calabi-Yau 3-folds to calculate the A-model Yukawa coupling, and thus the generating function of the genus 0 GW invariants on the suspected mirror. I'm wondering if it's possible to have negative GW invariants even in genus 0. Also is it possible to have $n\_d=0$ for all odd $d$, where the $n\_d$ are defined to be the unique rational numbers fitting into the formula $N\_l=\sum\_{d|l} n\_{l/d}d^{-3}$, where $N\_d=I\_{0,0,d}$ is the $d$-th genus 0, unpointed, GW invariant in degree d on a Calabi-Yau 3-fold with Picard rank 1. These numbers are also known as the instanton numbers. 


To be more precise about my exact question: Suppose you have a CY 3-fold with Picard rank 1, so you can write any cohomology class in codim 2 as $dH$. Then we can write the GW invariants $$N\_d=I\_{0,0,dH}=\sum\_{k|d} n\_{d/k} k^{-3}.$$ Is it possible for these $n\_{d/k}$'s to be negative for a few low degree terms, and zero for all odd degrees.



Zero and Negative Gromov-Witten invariants in genus 0
It is certainly possible to have $n\_d$ be negative or zero. For example if $X=K\_{\mathbb{P}^2}$, the total space of the canonical bundle over $\mathbb{P}^2$, then $n\_2=-6$. Your $n\_d$ are genus 0 Gopakumar-Vafa invariants (or BPS numbers) and they have a description in terms of sheaves on $X$ which is (conjecturally) equivalent to your formula in terms of GW invariants. $n\_d$ is given as the topological Euler characteristic (weighted by the Behrend function) of the moduli space of semi-stable sheaves $F$ on $X$ whose support is in the curve class dual to "$d$" and such that $\chi(F)=1$. The Behrend function is a integer valued constructible function on any scheme over $\mathbb{C}$ which takes the value $(-1)^n$ at non-singular points of dimension $n$. My point is that if the curves of degree $d$ move in a family, then this weighted Euler characteristic might easily be negative or zero. In the case of $X=K\_{\mathbb{P}^2}$, $d=2$, the sheaves are given by the structure sheaves of conics in the plane and so the moduli space is a $\mathbb{P}^5$ (whose Behrend function is the constant -1) and so the weighted Euler characteristic is minus the topological euler characteristic of $\mathbb{P}^5$, so $n\_2=-6$. 


