Gromov-Witten invariants of the Hilbert scheme of 3-points on \(\mathbb{P}^2\) (Q1884546)

The present article continues the study of curves in Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces started in [Turk. J. Math. 26, 53--68 (2002; Zbl 1054.14068)] and [in: Vector bundles and representation theory. Proc. conf. Columbia, MO, 2002, Contemp. Math. 322, 89--96 (2003; Zbl 1057.14012)]. Although many results about the cohomology ring of the punctual Hilbert schemes of surfaces are available, due to works of L.~Göttsche, M.~Lehn, H.~Nakajima et al., much less is known about their quantum cohomology rings. The authors consider the case of \(\text{Hilb}^3(\mathbb P^2)\), and are mainly interested in the quantum contributions coming from the curves which are contracted by the Hilbert-Chow morphism \(\varphi: \text{Hilb}^3(\mathbb P^2)\rightarrow \text{Sym}^3(\mathbb P^2)\). The motivation for this choice is given by \textit{Y.~Ruan}'s conjecture about the quantum cohomology ring of the crepant resolutions of orbifold singularities [Cohomology ring of crepant resolutions of orbifolds, preprint, \texttt{http://arxiv.org/abs/math.AG/0108195}], applied in this context to the morphism \(\varphi\). The main result of the article is the explicit computation of the \(2\)- and \(3\)-pointed genus-\(0\) Gromov-Witten invariants of \(\text{Hilb}^3(\mathbb P^2)\). A rather tedious, case-by-case analysis shows that most of them vanish. The remaining invariants are all explicitely computed, except the ones coming from curves in \(\text{Hilb}^3(\mathbb P^2)\) corresponding to subschemes whose support is contained in a line in \(\mathbb P^2\). These latter are computed using the localization formula of \textit{T.~Graber} and \textit{R.~Pandharipande} [Invent. Math. 135, 487--518 (1999; Zbl 0953.14035)], and is expressed as a sum over stable graphs.