Quantum cohomology rings of Grassmannians and total positivity (Q1847883)

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    Quantum cohomology rings of Grassmannians and total positivity
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      Quantum cohomology rings of Grassmannians and total positivity (English)
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      27 October 2002
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      A result of D.~Peterson identifying the quantum cohomology ring of a Grassmannian with the reduced coordinate ring of a certain subvariety of \(\text{GL}_n\) is proven. The methods developed are used to give a new proof of a formula of C.~Vafa, K.~Intriligator, and A.~Bertram for the structure constants (Gromov-Witten invariants). Certain inequalities for Schur polynomials at roots of unity are proven.
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      Gromov-Witten invariants
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      quantum cohomology rings
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      Grassmannians
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      reduced coordinate rings
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      Schur polynomials
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