Affine symmetries of the equivariant quantum cohomology ring of rational homogeneous spaces (Q1012962)

The paper under review is concerned with certain nice properties enjoyed by semisimple simply connected algebraic groups. If \(G\) is any one such, and \(Z\) is its center, the latter can be identified with the fundamental group of \(G/Z\). Others important interpretations of the center of \(G\), for instance in terms of coroots and coweight lattices, are quickly listed in the introduction. The paper however focuses on some properties studied in an important paper by \textit{P.~Seidel} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 7, No. 6, 1046--1095 (1997; Zbl 0928.53042)], who proved that the fundamental group of the group of hamiltonian symplectomorphisms of a symplectic variety \(X\) can be mapped to the group of invertible elements of the quantum cohomology ring of \(X\) localised in the quantum parameters. The point is that if \(X\) is a rational homogeneous space, there is a symplectic structure on \(X\) induced by its natural projective structure, and one so gets what the authors baptize as the \textsl{Seidel's representation}, i.e. a map from the fundamental group of \(G/Z\) and the subgroup of the invertibles elements of the quantum cohomology ring of \(X\) localized at the quantum parameter. In a previous paper [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2007, No. 22, Article ID rnm107, 29 p. (2007; Zbl 1142.14033)] the authors study this map in the case when \(X\) a \textsl{minuscule} or \textsl{cominuscule} homogeneous space (see the review of that paper, by the same reviewer, for glossary and terminology). The main achievement of this work consists in extending the description of the Seidel's representation for all homogeneous spaces, proving in particular that it is faithful. The product structure in \(QH^*_T(X)_{loc}\) is described in the first main theorem of the paper, while the second main theorem focuses on the explicit description of the representation map. The results rely on two previous results gotten by Peterson [Quantum Cohomology of \(G/P\), 1997, unpublished] and P.~Magyar (Notes on Schubert classes of a loop group (2007), \url{arXiv:0705.3826}). The detailed description of the Seidel's representation is performed in Section 4, the last of the paper, while the second section, after the general introduction, is devoted to describe the crucial results by Peterson and Magjar. A key formula by Magyar is extended in section 3 in a more general situation. This paper is very well written, like some others previous papers on similar subjects by the same authors. The interested and motivated reader is advised to read all of them at once, for the best profit.