Elliptic curves on some homogeneous spaces (Q374012)

Let \(C\) be a smooth elliptic curve, and \(X\) be a minuscule homogeneous space (i.e., a homogeneous space associated to a minuscule fundamental weight), an odd-dimensional quadric (which is co-minuscule, but not minuscule), or an adjoint homogeneous space of type different from \(A\) or \(G_2\). Consider the scheme \({\mathbf{Hom}}_d(C,X)\) of morphisms of degree \(d\). It is shown that this scheme is irreducible of dimension \(c_1(X) d\) for \(d\) larger than a certain lower bound, which is explicitly given, and optimal in many cases.NEWLINENEWLINEThe strategy of the proof is to retreat to a big open cell \(U\), which is a ``tower'' of affine bundles \(\phi:U\to Y\) over a homogeneous space \(Y\) under a smaller group. Namely, the irreducibility of \({\mathbf{Hom}}_d(C,X)\) can be restricted to the irreducibility of \({\mathbf{Hom}}_d(C,U)\), which in turn can be deduced from the irreducibility of \({\mathbf{Hom}}_d(C,Y)\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper is engaging and very well written. It should be of some interest for genus \(1\) Gromov-Witten theory of homogeneous spaces.