A Gromov-Witten Theory for Simple Normal-Crossing Pairs Without Log Geometry

We define a new Gromov-Witten theory relative to simple normal crossing divisors as a limit of Gromov-Witten theory of multi-root stacks. Several structural properties are proved including relative quantum cohomology, Givental formalism, Virasoro constraints (genus zero) and a partial cohomological field theory. Furthermore, we use the degree zero part of the relative quantum cohomology to provide an alternative mirror construction of Gross and Siebert (Intrinsic mirror symmetry, arXiv:1909.07649) and to prove the Frobenius structure conjecture of Gross et al. (Publ Math Inst Hautes & Eacute;tudes Sci 122:65-168, 2015) in our setting.