Intersection numbers on the compact variety of rational ruled surfaces (Q2390683)

The present paper is concerned with the computation of the degree of a ``generalized Plücker embedding'' of the Quot scheme \(R_d\) of quotients of degree \(d\), rank \(2\) quotients of \(\mathcal O_{\mathbb P^1}^4\). This Quot scheme is a fine moduli space and it yields a natural (smooth and irreducible) compactification of the moduli space parametrizing maps of degree \(d\) from \(\mathbb P^1\) to the Grassmannian of lines \(G(2,4)\). The embeddings considered by the author are given by natural line bundles on the Quot scheme, and it is important from the point of view of enumerative geometry to compute its degrees. Such numbers were computed via Quantum Cohomology by \textit{M. S. Ravi, J. Rosenthal} and \textit{X. Wang} [Math. Ann. 311, No. 1, 11--26 (1998; Zbl 0902.14036)] and can be obtained also via the Vafa and Intriligator formula from the work of \textit{A. Bertram} [Adv. Math. 128, No. 2, 289--305 (1997; Zbl 0945.14031)]. In the paper under review the author computes these numbers using Bott's residues formula by means of a \(\mathbb C^*\) action. The explicit computation in the case of \(d=3\) is carried out in an appendix.