Finiteness of cominuscule quantum K-theory

zbMATH Open1282.14016arXiv1011.6658MaRDI QIDQ2854293FDOQ2854293

Authors: Anders Skovsted Buch, Pierre-Emmanuel Chaput, Leonardo C. Mihalcea, Nicolas Perrin 

Publication date: 18 October 2013

Published in: Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure. Quatrième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The product of two Schubert classes in the quantum K-theory ring of a homogeneous space X = G/P is a formal power series with coefficients in the Grothendieck ring of algebraic vector bundles on X. We show that if X is cominuscule, then this power series has only finitely many non-zero terms. The proof is based on a geometric study of boundary Gromov-Witten varieties in the Kontsevich moduli space, consisting of stable maps to X that take the marked points to general Schubert varieties and whose domains are reducible curves of genus zero. We show that all such varieties have rational singularities, and that boundary Gromov-Witten varieties defined by two Schubert varieties are either empty or unirational. We also prove a relative Kleiman-Bertini theorem for rational singularities, which is of independent interest. A key result is that when X is cominuscule, all boundary Gromov-Witten varieties defined by three single points in X are rationally connected.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6658

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zbMATH Keywords

rational connectednessrational singularitiesquantum \(K\)-theoryquantum Schubert calculuscominuscule homogeneous spacesGromov-Witten varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Applications of methods of algebraic (K)-theory in algebraic geometry (14C35) Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35)

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