Multiple quantum products in toric varieties (Q700919)

In his Ph. D. thesis ``A Formula for the Gromov-Witten Invariants of Toric Varieties'' (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, 1999; Zbl 0964.14045), the author of the present paper has recently proven an explicit combinatorial formula for the genus-zero Gromov-Witten invariants of a smooth projective toric variety \(X\) with respect to the distinguished cohomology class \(\beta = 1\) in \(H^0(\overline{\mathcal M}_{0,m},\mathbb{Q})\), where \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{0,m}\) denotes the Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space of genus-zero curves with \(m\) marked points. In the paper under review, the author continues this study by deriving a similar formula for the case where the class \(\beta\) is the maximal product of Chern classes of cotangent lines to the marked points, that is for those classes that are Poincaré dual to a finite number of points in the moduli space \(\overline{M}_{0,m}\). At the end of the paper, this new formula is illustrated by explicitely exhibiting it for the special toric variety \(\mathbb{P}_{\mathbb{P}^1}({\mathcal O} \oplus(r-2)\oplus {\mathcal O}(1)\oplus {\mathcal O}(1))\). This is then used to compute the quantum cohomology ring of that special manifold, which provides an alternative approach to the one carried out earlier by \textit{V. V. Batyrev} in [Astérisque 218, 9-34 (1993; Zbl 0806.14041)].