Counting maximal subbundles via Gromov-Witten invariants (Q1423610)

In this paper the author computes the number of maximal sub-bundles of rank \(k\) of a (general) stable bundle over a smooth projective curve of genus at least \(2\). To accomplish this, the author first follows \textit{A. Bertram} [Int. J. Math. 5, 811--825 (1994; Zbl 0823.14038)] to give a description of Gromov-Witten invariants for the Grassmannians of subspaces of a vector bundle, and then relates the desired numbers to these Gromov-Witten invariants. The author then shows that these Gromov-Witten invariants can be computed purely in terms of the Gromov-Witten invariants for the case when the ambient bundle is trivial, where a formula of Vafa and Intriligator [\textit{B. Siebert} and \textit{G. Tian}, Asian J. Math. 1, No. 4, 679--695 (1997; Zbl 0974.14040)] can be used to compute the desired numbers.