Quantum cohomology of flag manifolds.

DOI10.1016/S0001-8708(02)00049-XMaRDI QIDQ1869019zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Linda Chen

Publication date 9 April 2003

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010080

zbMATH Keywords

degeneracy locusGromov-Witten invariantsquot schemesSchubert polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35)

Abstract: The (small) quantum cohomology ring of a flag manifold F encodes enumerative geometry of rational curves on F. We give a proof of the presentation of the ring and of a quantum Giambelli formula, which is more direct and geometric than the previously known proof. Furthermore, this proof gives a relationship between quantum Schubert polynomials and universal Schubert polynomials, which arise in a degeneracy locus formula of Fulton.

Review text

This paper contributes to the study of the small quantum cohomology ring of partial flag manifolds over \({\mathbb C}\). The classical Schubert calculus provides a description of the classical cohomology ring of a partial flag manifold in terms of generators and relations. The generators are determined by Chern classes of tautological vector bundles. A central role is played by the Giambelli formula, which expresses the Schubert classes as polynomials in the generators. These results have been extended to the quantum cohomology ring by \textit{I. Ciocan-Fontanine} [Duke Math. J. 98, No. 3, 485--524 (1999; Zbl 0969.14039)] and \textit{S. Fomin, S. Gelfand} and \textit{A. Postnikov} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 10, No. 3, 565--596 (1997; Zbl 0912.14018)]. In the paper under review, simplified and more natural proofs for these results are provided. The key idea is to study the geometry of the relationship between quantum Schubert polynomials and \textit{W. Fulton}'s universal Schubert polynomials, which solve a certain degeneracy locus problem [Duke Math. J. 96, No. 3, 575--594 (1999; Zbl 0981.14022)]. The proofs are based on calculations in the cohomology of so-called hyperquot schemes. These schemes compactify moduli spaces of maps from \({\mathbb P}^ 1\) to the flag manifold in a different way than Kontsevich's stable map spaces do.

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