Counts of maps to Grassmannians and intersections on the moduli space of bundles (Q881955)

Let \(\mathcal{N}\) denote the moduli space of stable bundles of a fixed determinant on a projective curve \(C\), where the rank \(r\) and degree \(d\) are assumed to be coprime. The authors present a simple and entirely finite dimensional algebro-geometric derivation of the Witten-Szenes-Jeffrey-Kirwan residue formulas, which express the intersection numbers of the normalized characteristic classes of \(\mathcal{N}\) in terms of iterated residues. These include the Verlinda formula as a special case. The main idea in the proof is to exploit the connection between the intersection theory of \(\mathcal{N}\) and that of a compactification Quot of the scheme of degree \(d\) morphisms from \(C\) to the Grassmannian \(G(r, N)\). In turn, the authors apply this connection to establish a vanishing result about intersections on Quot.